Jason Swartz
Senior Engineering Manager at Sentry
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Swartz is a Senior Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience building high-performing teams and shipping developer-focused infrastructure at companies like Stripe, Twitch, Snowflake, and Sentry. He combines deep full-stack and developer-experience expertise—driving large CI and build system improvements that cut build and deploy times by orders of magnitude—with a knack for product-minded leadership that boosted cloud workspace and AI tool adoption. Known for mentoring and scaling teams (from small squads to 12-engineer groups), he repeatedly saves engineering years through consolidation and automation while delivering measurable business impact. He authored Learning Scala and balances technical credibility with strong public speaking and written communication. During a recent sabbatical he cared for a family member with Long Covid while building an AI TTS-powered Hebrew learning app, reflecting both resilience and curiosity for applied AI. Based in Oakland, he focuses on maximizing developer productivity and career growth in revenue-critical engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.C.S., Computer Science, Communications, B.S.C.S., Computer Science, Communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (114)
sentry10
python10
firebase10
auth10
monitoring10
error-logging10
django10
monitor10
apm10
package10
performance-monitoring10
dcos10
crash-reports10
devops10
reveal-js9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
swartzrock/reveal.js-to-pdf
Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
Convert a Reveal.js slide deck to PDF
Contributions:13 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 11 months
pdfreveal-js
swartzrock/graalvm-scala-lambda
May 2019 - Aug 2022
A Hello, World app for AWS Lambda. Written in Scala, compiled with the GraalVM and executed with the AWS Lambda Custom Runtime.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
aws-lambdagraalvmlambdascala
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