Jason Poon
Director Of Software Engineering at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Poon is a seasoned software engineering leader with 16 years of experience, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Oracle in Seattle. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular Pachyderm project, where he added Azure Blob storage support and cloud deployment tooling—with strategic leadership of engineering teams. Jason excels at bridging infrastructure and application concerns to enable data-centric pipelines and cloud-native deployments at scale. A University of British Columbia alumnus, he brings a pragmatic, documentation-minded approach to complex systems and a knack for operationalizing open-source innovations within enterprise environments.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor's of Applied Science, Bachelor's of Applied Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
azure10
blob-storage10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
container9
distributed-systems9
data-versioning8
data-analysis8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to integrating Microsoft Azure Blob storage support, including code changes in Go related to Azure SDK. They also implemented deployment configurations for Azure data disks. Additionally, they updated documentation and added a docker image for creating blank VHDs, showcasing DevOps skills for cloud-based deployments and infrastructure setup.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
jpoon/StorageExplorer
Jan 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:97 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 2 years 2 months
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