Jason Rogers
Director, Backend Engineering at DNAnexus
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Rogers is a seasoned backend engineering leader with 11+ years in software and over two decades of systems experience, currently directing a distributed backend team at DNAnexus in San Jose. He combines hands-on architecture and platform work—driving 10x concurrency improvements and CI/CD adoption—with people leadership, hiring and mentoring managers and engineers to deliver secure, scalable bioinformatics cloud services. His background spans compute/job infrastructure, SOC bring-up automation from his earlier ASIC-focused roles, and a pragmatic focus on reducing operational cost and technical debt. Comfortable interfacing with security and product stakeholders, he balances delivery cadence with architectural rigor and continuous learning. Colleagues describe him as an open communicator who turns complex, regulated workflows into auditable, production-ready platforms.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Software Engineering at San José State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English
Github Skills (7)
barrage10
wake-on-lan10
python9
ws6
nodejs5
websocket4
websocket-client3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
ocbrewing/CMPE235Lab1
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
dnanexus/dx-toolkit
Sep 2015 - Jul 2021
DNAnexus platform client libraries
Contributions:13 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 5 years 11 months
pythontoolkitclient-librariesdnanexusbarrage
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