Jason Smith
Program Manager, International Programs
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Smith is a seasoned cleared technology leader and program manager with 11 years in international programs and over two decades of software engineering experience across defense and commercial sectors. Currently managing international programs at Octo (an IBM Company), he blends program-level strategy with hands-on technical depth gained as a principal engineer and engineering director at Connexta and long tenure at Lockheed Martin. He focuses on AI/ML and ISR systems, delivering scalable, auditable solutions for complex, security-sensitive environments. An active back-end contributor to open-source integration work (notably fixes to the DDF distributed data framework), he brings practical problem-solving—such as improving geospatial data handling and source initialization—into program execution. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he pairs Georgia Tech computer science foundations with a rare mix of systems engineering rigor and international program delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (6)
xml10
wfs10
javas10
xml-parsing10
java10
osgi9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 169 reviews, 93 commits in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the DDF framework. Their contributions include correcting the readGml method in AbstractFeatureConverterWfs20 to set the default namespace and fixing the initialization logic of CswSource to ensure immediate availability. They updated the WFS2.0 FilterDelegate to produce mapserver-friendly date/times and removed the Wcs Resource Reader.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
jlcsmith/alliance
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 31 branches in 6 years
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