Jason Nappier
Senior Manager, Engineering at 8am
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Nappier is a senior engineering manager and operator with 11 years of experience blending hands‑on software engineering, product leadership, and entrepreneurship to build customer‑facing web and mobile platforms. He has led teams and architecture efforts across startups and scaleups—from payment integrations at Spreedly and high‑performance security systems at Tenable to consumer mental health apps at Big Health and a design studio at Vistaprint—while also founding and running companies that commercialize practical SaaS products. Jason’s background spans full‑stack engineering, microservices migrations, and go‑to‑market thinking, giving him a rare ability to translate business goals into technical roadmaps. Now based in the DC‑Baltimore area, he concurrently leads engineering at AffiniPay’s portfolio company and invests in lower‑middle‑market businesses through Jaylex Capital, reflecting a continued focus on growth through product and operational improvements. An MS in Computer Science underpins his technical depth, and his career shows a consistent pattern of moving from code to strategy to value creation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Stackoverflow
185reputation
41kreached
5answers
6questions
Github Skills (33)
shopify10
ecommerce10
merchant10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
abstraction10
ruby10
payment-processing10
payment10
spree10
adyen10
square10
message-board8
e-mail6
cart6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jasonxp/active_merchant
May 2019 - Nov 2019
Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library extracted from Shopify. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.
Contributions:114 pushes, 28 branches in 5 months
ecommerceaimpartssupportedruby
websdotcom/resource-mutex
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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