Jason Newman
Co-Founder at Kolla Corporation
Lehi, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJason Newman is a Co-Founder and seasoned software architect with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems and microservice platforms. He led the migration from monolith to Kubernetes-powered microservices at Weave, building observability, deployment, and troubleshooting tooling that runs across 20,000 servers. With a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue focused on statistical optics, he brings uncommon expertise applying custom algorithms and machine learning to extract real-time signals from noisy, high-volume datasets. Jason is hands-on across languages and stacks—Go, C#, C, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Jaeger and more—and has repeatedly automated operations for secure, remote deployments. He also built and ran e-commerce platforms end-to-end, giving him product and operational intuition beyond pure engineering. Based in Lehi, Utah, he combines deep research roots with pragmatic startup execution to deliver resilient, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (63)
open-api-v310
programming-language10
messaging10
distributed-tracing10
websocket10
go10
driver10
nsq10
jaeger10
golang10
postman10
opentelemetry10
psutil10
queue10
system-information10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jnewmano/tap-seed-data
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Generate random seed data
Contributions:26 PRs, 57 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 5 months
random-seed
jnewmano/mqtt-nsq
Jul 2017 - Jul 2022
Go MQTT Client and MQTT to NSQ bridge
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 21 commits in 5 years 1 month
gomqttnsq
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