Jason Pearl
Code Review And QA Intern For The Sr Robot Engineering Team at Transistor.fm
St. Charles, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJason Pearl is a seasoned product design and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling web products, currently shaping podcast hosting at Transistor.fm. He blends hands-on backend expertise—contributing to notable open-source work like Libraries.io’s API and optimized endpoints—with product leadership roles across startups and consultancies. Jason has led data and engineering teams at Tidelift and Participate, and co-founded a game studio that supported 1.4M players, demonstrating both technical depth and entrepreneurial grit. Based in St. Charles, IL, he pairs a dual background in MIS and Finance with a practical focus on reliable systems, observability, and shipping customer-facing features. An engineer who still writes serializers and specs, he brings a rare mix of operational curiosity and product sensibility to every team he joins.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems at Miami University
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Github Skills (16)
activemodelserializers10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
serializer10
apidoc10
ruby10
dependency-analysis9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
open-source8
postgresql8
searching7
package-manager-tool6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
librariesio/libraries.io
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
:books: The Open Source Discovery Service
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:231 reviews, 111 commits, 85 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the backend of the Libraries.io project. Their work involved serializing and deserializing data for different components, specifically for versions. They implemented RSpec specifications for testing API endpoints and serializers, and added logging functionality to monitor database connection counts and version creation lag. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the `/check` endpoint by implementing an optimized version that avoided active model serializers.
dependenciesrailspackage-managerdiscoveryservice-discovery
TransistorFM/theme-docs
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Documentation for Transistor Theme creation
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 18 pushes in 8 months
transistorcreation
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