Jason Underhill
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
East Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJason Underhill is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience building scalable, service-oriented systems and leading engineering practices across cloud and on-premise environments. Currently at DuckDuckGo after five years driving Affinity Cloud Services at Serif, he has introduced serverless AWS solutions, infrastructure-as-code, and comprehensive automated testing to support millions of users. His background spans technical leadership in healthcare scheduling, mission-critical ASP.NET systems, and innovative POC work for defense and automotive clients, demonstrating a practical blend of backend expertise and product-focused engineering. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tenant management and UX details in the humanitarian allReady project, showing attention to both core functionality and user-facing polish. Collected training in computing and mathematics underpins a pragmatic, test-driven approach and a history of mentoring teams toward SOLID, maintainable code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computing and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computing and Mathematics at The Open UniversityUniversity of DerbyBurton CollegeJohn Taylor High School
English
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
testing10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
incident-response8
readiness8
disaster-recovery8
prepare8
first-responder8
camp8
entity-framework6
file-upload6
angularjs6
asp-net-mvc6
typeahead6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
HTBox/allReady
Dec 2015 - Nov 2016
This repo contains the code for allReady, an open-source solution focused on increasing awareness, efficiency and impact of preparedness campaigns as they are delivered by humanitarian and disaster response organizations in local communities.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the "allReady" project, focusing on the tenant management system. This included the creation of unit tests for the TenantController, as well as fixing bugs related to redirects after saving a new organization and updating a details view to use `RouteLink`. Additionally, the user made minor changes to the frontend in order to implement correct social media icons. These contributions showcase a focus on improving the application's core functionality and user experience.
awarenesspreparednesscampaignsc-sharporganizations
junderhill/VimConfig
Feb 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 1 month
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