Summary
Jason Steinhauser is a program manager and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building mission-critical analysis and test systems for defense and aerospace customers. He combines hands-on development in C#, C++, Qt and web stacks with technical leadership—having served as engineering manager, technical lead, and product owner across SBIR, telemetry modernization, and network analysis projects. Jason has a track record of turning legacy, ad-hoc codebases into requirement-driven, testable products and introduced property-based testing and CI practices to prove algorithm correctness. He’s also an entrepreneur who built a top-rated live escape-room business and its monitoring platform, showing a knack for product design, UX tooling, and small-team delivery. Based in Huntsville, AL, he mentors junior developers and champions maintainability, automated testing, and pragmatic FP-like design patterns. Colleagues rely on him for bridging deep technical detail with customer-facing requirements and repeatable delivery.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma, 3.97/4.0, Advanced Diploma, 3.97/4.0 at Sparkman High School
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, 3.42/4.0 - Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, 3.42/4.0 - Cum Laude at Auburn University