Summary
Jason Shao is a seasoned technology and operations leader with 12+ years building high-performance engineering, product, and ad-ops organizations across programmatic advertising, location analytics, and civic-scale connectivity. As COO of Place Exchange (after serving as CTO and Head of Technology) he scaled real-time bidding and programmatic OOH capabilities, unifying workflows and device-level attribution to bring web-style buying to physical-world media. He’s repeatedly turned fragmented teams and brittle systems into autonomous, metrics-driven organizations through Agile, DevOps, and “X-as-code” practices while shipping large-scale, high-throughput distributed systems. Jason combines hands-on technical depth in big-data architectures and RTB platforms with a knack for launching new products and fixing broken processes, and he continues to consult startups through Contingency2. Based in Pasadena, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes—reduced cycle times, massive throughput gains, and clearer operational SLAs—that power business growth.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Trailhead by Salesforce
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
French, English, Chinese