Jason Whaley
Privacy Engineer at Meta
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJason Whaley is a privacy-focused engineer with 15 years of experience designing message-driven architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and robust build systems across startups and large platforms. Currently at Meta after driving cloud automation, data discovery, and IAM lifecycle tooling at Twitter, he excels at turning compliance and operational requirements into automated, scalable services. His background spans streaming analytics, Lambda-style architectures, and API platform work—paired with deep hands-on experience in Java, cloud (AWS/GCP), and messaging systems like RabbitMQ and Apache Camel. Jason blends practitioner-level build engineering and deployment automation with privacy and data governance, and is known humorously on GitHub as a "Giraffe Whisperer," hinting at a playful curiosity beneath a pragmatic engineering approach.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at University of North Carolina at CharlotteTwitter UniversityBachelors of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems, Bachelors of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems at Western Carolina University
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Github Skills (55)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whaley/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - May 2026
Contributions:144 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years
whaley/advent-of-code
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:44 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 11 months
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