Jason Rist
Associate Manager, Technical Account Manager Team
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJason Rist is an experienced technology leader with 15 years building and guiding teams across cloud, open source, and public sector solutions from Denver. Currently an Associate Manager leading Red Hat’s North American Public Sector TAM team, he blends hands-on engineering roots in UI and full‑stack development with strategic account leadership and escalation management. Jason’s background includes deep contributions to notable open-source projects like Katello and Pulp—where he focused on UI/UX and front-end work—and long tenure developing cloud lifecycle and OpenStack tooling. He excels at translating complex technical challenges into customer-facing architectures and measurable adoption strategies, and is known for mentoring high-performing TAMs while driving cross-functional go-to-market initiatives. Beyond enterprise roles, he runs his own design and technology practice, bringing a practitioner’s eye for usability and brand to large-scale platform deployments.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Colorado State University
English
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
website-design10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
back-end-development8
backend8
content-management7
ruby7
content-management-system7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Katello/katello
Jun 2011 - Feb 2013
Katello integrates open source systems management tools into a single solution for controlling the lifecycle of your machines.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:751 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to both the front-end and back-end aspects of the Katello project. Their work included implementing UI features like a "toggle all" functionality on the sync management page, along with associated JavaScript code modifications. The user also merged branch changes, indicating involvement in managing code integration and addressing conflicts, as well as contributed to Ruby on Rails controllers, and helper files.
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pulp/pulp
Nov 2010 - Nov 2010
⛔️Pulp2 is EOL! ⛔️Pulp 2 platform code, including the server and base admin and consumer clients
Role in this project:UI Designer & Front-end Developer
UI Designer & Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on front-end development within the Pulp project. Their contributions involved modifying and updating the project's website, including changes to CSS and HTML files. The changes primarily focused on the layout, design, and visual elements of the site, incorporating background images, color schemes, and UI components, and linking to relevant resources. They also added the team members to the website.
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