Jason Young
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Young is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of deep systems and networking expertise, currently at Google in Kirkland, Washington. He specializes in Linux kernel development, device drivers, and Wi‑Fi/IEEE 802.11 and has steered low‑level network protocol work across Qualcomm and DSP Group prior to joining Google. At Google and in open source, he blends kernel- and driver-level chops with cloud-native deployment experience, contributing to Istio projects—ranging from protobuf API design to automating Kubernetes-based deployments and improving istioctl docs. Known for bridging firmware-level constraints with scalable service infrastructure, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach that surfaces in both production drivers and in developer-facing documentation.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
Github Skills (27)
markdown10
kubernetes10
docker10
website-development10
apidoc10
protocol-buffers10
dockers10
automation10
go10
markdown-it10
automation-testing10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
istio10
automations10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
istio/api
Oct 2017 - Mar 2019
API definitions for the Istio project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 43 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason's contributions primarily revolve around defining API specifications for the Istio project. They introduced and modified protobuf definitions for `APISpec` and related structures, enabling the generation of API attributes from HTTP requests. Furthermore, the user updated existing code to use the renamed `Attributes` and updated the protobuf specifications, and also performed a significant refactor to rename the `APISpec` to `HTTPAPISpec`. The user also defined per-service mixerclient runtime configuration, adding more complexity to the configuration.
apiistiokubernetesdefinitions
istio/istio.io
Mar 2017 - Mar 2020
Source for the istio.io site
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:58 commits, 70 PRs, 76 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focuses on documentation and reference material updates for the `istio.io` site. They are responsible for generating and maintaining the `istioctl` command-line reference documentation by updating the generation scripts and refreshing the content. The commits also show involvement in adding vanity redirects for Go packages and making adjustments to the documentation generation process.
istiomicroservices-architecture
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