Jason Simmons
Senior Software Engineer at Valon
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJason Simmons is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, distributed systems, and developer tooling. A University of Florida graduate based in Florida, he has driven production infrastructure and observability initiatives at companies like DigitalOcean and Ultimate Software and now contributes to Valon's engineering efforts. He’s steeped in Kubernetes, Go, serverless platforms, and the monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), and has architected internal PaaS abstractions and automation for bare-metal and OpenStack environments. Known for bridging hands-on implementation with platform design, he focuses on making complex distributed systems easier to operate and observe. Notably, his background includes building internal “appliance” marketplaces and RESTful Go microservices that turn infrastructure patterns into reusable developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts General Education, Associate of Arts General Education at University of North FloridaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Arts & Sciences, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Digital Arts & Sciences at University of Florida
English, Spanish, American Sign Language
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Github Skills (48)
mesos10
kubernetes10
docker10
react-native10
kubernetes-monitoring10
lifecycle10
mattermost10
scheduling10
go10
golang10
monorepo10
collaboration10
react10
tooling7
checker7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jasimmons/kubernetes
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 52 pushes in 2 years 3 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
jasimmons/doors
Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
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