Jason Ormand
Senior Software Engineer at Big Think+
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJason Ormand is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web platforms, developer tooling, and performance-focused infrastructure. Based in Denver, he has driven migrations from EC2 to Kubernetes, modernized CI by moving teams from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, and created internal libraries and Rails apps to simplify complex deployment workflows. He’s equally at home improving front-end UX—authoring charting and UI toggles for embeddable performance scripts—and enhancing backend image processing, contributing features and tests to the popular Thumbor thumbnail service. A pragmatic problem solver, Jason combines performance engineering roots with developer-experience R&D to make both applications faster and teams more productive. His background includes hands-on service work and founding a design/dev shop, and he brings a naval-engineer’s discipline to scalable, observable systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CIS, Computer Information Systems, CIS, Computer Information Systems at Oklahoma State University - Oklahoma City
Stackoverflow
706reputation
50kreached
9answers
3questions
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
python10
image-processing10
css10
web-performance10
front-end-development10
html10
tornado9
web-framework9
ffmpeg8
unit-testing7
nohup6
backgrounds6
ruby-on-rails6
emberjs6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
okor/justice
Jan 2015 - Jan 2020
Embeddable script for displaying web page performance metrics.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 112 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on building a web page performance metrics display. They refactored the code to utilize a single cache object for storing data, and they implemented various UI and chart rendering functions. The commits indicate that they were responsible for designing and implementing the front-end components. The user’s contributions include the creation of a show/hide toggle, text metric, and chart.
performance-metricsperformancemetricsembeddableweb-page
thumbor/thumbor
Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
thumbor is an open-source photo thumbnail service by globo.com
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the thumbor photo thumbnail service by modifying backend logic. Their contributions included setting and moving content-type settings, and adding MIME types for different image formats such as JPEG2000. Furthermore, the user added a focal filter feature and associated tests to improve image manipulation capabilities. Additional commits included improvements to the gifv optimizer and minor adjustments to existing code.
imagethumbnailglobothumborphoto
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.