Jason Prado
Technical Lead at Zipline
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Prado is a technical lead and generalist engineering manager with 16 years of experience building production systems from compilers and OS research to consumer clients and real‑time platforms. Currently at Zipline he leads development of UAS Traffic Management systems and helps shape FAA shared airspace standards, having operationalized low-latency shared databases across US cities and rural sites in Rwanda and Ghana. Previously he led Novi Wallet architecture at Facebook, contributed to build tooling like Facebook’s Buck (including macOS/Xcode integrations), and helped transition Google Chat to Hangouts after an early exit from his own startup acquired by Google. Passionate about cooperatives and open source, he steers platform cooperative ventures and prefers mission-driven, unionized workplaces over VC-backed environments. Known for bridging product and deep systems work, he combines hands-on implementation with policy-facing technical leadership.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (8)
xcode10
macos10
build-tools10
ios10
javas8
java8
objective-c6
python5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/buck
Apr 2014 - Aug 2019
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 issue in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the build system and Xcode project generation features of the repository, likely focused on improving support for Apple platforms. They implemented a new `macosx_framework` rule, and refactored the `ProjectGenerator` to streamline the project generation process. Significant changes were made to improve the integration with Xcode workspaces and fix build and reference pathing issues.
buckpythonplatformsandroidlanguages
dominictarr/canvas-browserify
Jul 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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