Jason Younker
Software Engineering Manager at BERA
Petoskey, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Younker is a seasoned software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building and modernizing high-scale backend systems and APIs across Go, Ruby, Elixir, and Rust. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to reduce costs and latency while increasing reliability and feature velocity—delivering multi-petabyte data pipelines, consolidating legacy services, and shipping low-latency APIs with five-nines availability. At BERA he manages Go-based microservices and CI/CD while at Moz he architected migrations from monoliths to distributed services and drove projects that cut spend by up to 64%. Known for blending hands-on coding with leadership—code reviews, architecture decisions, and mentoring—he also brings a rare background in psychology that informs his people-focused approach to engineering and hiring.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA) Clinical Psychology, Master of Arts (MA) Clinical Psychology at George Fox UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology and Religion, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology and Religion at Lee University
Github Skills (20)
schema-validation8
middleware8
robots-txt5
golang5
go5
programming-language4
python3
meta-tags3
txt3
meta3
queue2
pipeline2
api2
elixir1
haml1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
younker/ynkr
May 2018 - Jul 2026
Contributions:36 pushes, 16 branches in 8 years 2 months
seomoz/irobot
Mar 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
txtpythoninspectionrobots-txtrobots
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