Jason Tesser is a seasoned CTO and engineering leader with over 25 years of technology experience and a 14-year track record of hands-on engineering and executive leadership across startups and enterprise products. He architects and ships cloud-native, high-performance systems—from caching engines and VOD services to data warehouses and CMS platforms—while leading distributed teams across the US, Europe, and Latin America. A polyglot technologist fluent in Go, Java, Python, Kubernetes, and modern front-end frameworks, he pairs deep database and ops expertise (Postgres, Cassandra, Snowflake, AWS/Azure/GCP) with strategic product and digital-transformation leadership. His open-source contributions to dotCMS demonstrate continued full-stack involvement, touching backend Java, REST APIs, and frontend improvements in a widely used enterprise CMS. Unusually for a CTO, his background includes military leadership with Top Secret clearance and a foundation in theological studies, reflecting disciplined people leadership and a broad intellectual curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Theology/Theological Studies & Biblical Languages, Theology/Theological Studies & Biblical Languages at Northland International University
Theology/Theological Studies, Theology/Theological Studies at Liberty University
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
The Visual Headless Content Management System for Enterprises
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 release, 57 commits, 559 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to multiple aspects of the dotCMS core repository, including backend Java code, REST API updates, and changes to file asset management. Their work involved modifications to Contentlet, Folder, and Host models, indicating involvement in content management system features. The user also made improvements to the front-end by updating various resources, suggesting a focus on overall system functionality.
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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