Jason Wilder
Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Westminster, Colorado, United States
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RockstarJason Wilder is a Partner Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building and operating container-first infrastructure and scalable backend systems. He combines hands-on expertise in Docker internals, container tooling (authoring widely used projects like dockerize and docker-squash), and time-series storage improvements (contributions to InfluxDB) with leadership in delivering reliable production services. Based in Westminster, Colorado, he blends DevOps pragmatism with backend and database engineering—improving performance, locking, and data consistency in critical storage paths. Known for pragmatic fixes around signal handling, atomic updates, and layer rewriting, he focuses on operational robustness as much as feature delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate low-level systems nuances into maintainable team practices and resilient products.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (44)
docker10
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
file-parsing10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
tsd10
automation10
go10
parsing10
html-parsing10
command-line10
automations10
text-parsing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jwilder/docker-squash
Aug 2014 - May 2021
Squash docker images to make them smaller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 57 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on developing and improving the `docker-squash` tool. Their contributions involved adding features such as a version flag and implementing the core logic for squashing Docker image layers. They also made significant changes to the project's structure and handling of Docker image exports, including fixes for various error scenarios and improvements in the layer extraction and re-writing processes. The user demonstrates expertise in interacting with Docker image internals and build processes.
smallerdocker-imagesquashdockerdocker-images
nginx-proxy/docker-gen
Mar 2014 - Apr 2021
Generate files from docker container meta-data
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 8 reviews, 220 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the core functionality and operational aspects of the `docker-gen` project. They implemented the "notify" command option, enabling the execution of commands after template regeneration, enhancing the project's integration capabilities. Moreover, the user added features for watching container events and integrated with configuration files, which streamlines template management and supports multiple configurations. The user also focused on improving the project's reliability and flexibility with enhancements like atomic file updates, signal handling and Docker daemon restart management.
docker-imagemetadockermeta-datadocker-container
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