Jason Unger
Engineering Manager at Justworks
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Unger is an engineering manager based in New York with a decade of experience building and scaling web products across React, TypeScript, Golang, and Ruby on Rails. He has a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams, consolidating product teams to align with business priorities, and improving onboarding and recruitment post-acquisition. Jason blends hands-on technical leadership—driving TypeScript migrations, GraphQL best practices, and external API work—with product-minded execution, having stepped into product manager and people-management roles when needed. He founded a cross-team steering committee to create a low-engineering-effort data collection framework, demonstrating a talent for building durable operational leverage. A former instructor and mentor at Fullstack Academy, he brings a coaching mindset to growing engineers and improving team processes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Studied MEAN stack web applications development, including Git, HTML5/CSS3, Node.js / Express, MongoDB, AngularJS, etc., Studied MEAN stack web applications development, including Git, HTML5/CSS3, Node.js / Express, MongoDB, AngularJS, etc. at Fullstack AcademyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Systems Science and Engineering, Marketing, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Systems Science and Engineering, Marketing at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (30)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
dts10
form-validation8
deployer7
graphql6
state-management6
graphene-python6
react6
validation6
python6
asynchronous6
code-generation5
observer5
full-stack4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jsonunger/jsonunger.github.io
Jun 2016 - Aug 2024
The code for my personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 4 months
nextjs
jsonunger/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 41 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years
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