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 (151)
firebase10
auth10
uri10
dispatch10
okhttp10
package10
synchronous10
smithy10
dcos10
mesosphere9
deno9
scalaz9
object-oriented-programming9
ai9
database9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
swartzrock/pace
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
A visual timer for the command line
Contributions:3 releases, 183 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
command-line-toolcommandline-tooltimervisual-timercommand-line
swartzrock/OSCON-GetStartedWithScala
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 28 days
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