Jason Romero is a Backend Azure AI Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, blockchain protocols, and event-driven architectures. He led development of the Allo Protocol and Grants Stack—deploying smart contracts, an indexer that sped data retrieval by 35%, and UX-forward SDKs—and has processed production on-chain flows worth tens of millions while at Gitcoin. Jason combines deep C#/.NET and Azure data platform expertise with hands-on frontend contributions to prominent open-source scaffold-eth projects, showing a rare full-stack fluency across Solidity, React, and cloud automation. He has a track record of cutting costs and latency—reducing downtime to under an hour monthly and improving data retrieval by 30%—and runs Jax Labs, delivering AI-powered automation and leading distributed engineering for major events like ETHDenver. Based in Jacksonville, he blends systems-level engineering with product-minded execution, often solving operational inefficiencies that unlock measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Colchester High School
Network and Database Development, CCNA, software and web development., Network and Database Development, CCNA, software and web development. at Community College of Vermont
🏗 forkable Ethereum dev stack focused on fast product iterations
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:175 reviews, 389 commits, 381 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the front-end of the application by adding and configuring new wallet options within the web3modal WalletConnect setup. They modified the application's core UI components, including the main application file to update target networks and configure different wallet providers such as Portis, Fortmatic, and Authereum. The user's changes also included updating dependencies and merging changes from other branches to maintain the project's functionality.
Contributions:11 reviews, 138 commits, 134 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the React-based frontend application. They addressed issues related to autocomplete functionality in form inputs and wallet address inputs. Additionally, they added a network selector component, enhancing the user's ability to interact with different blockchain networks. The contributions are centered on improving the usability and functionality of the application.
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Jason Romero - Backend Azure AI Engineer at Jax Labs