Oscar Jara
Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Jara is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building desktop and cloud solutions for enterprise customers at Northrop Grumman. He blends hands-on development, DevOps-savvy build automation (including contributions to the Brave browser's packaging scripts), and a strong emphasis on collaboration and design to deliver production-ready systems. An Arizona State University computer science graduate, he progressed from intern to principal engineer while mentoring teams and shaping architecture. Outside work he prototypes mobile and web apps using cutting-edge tech and pursues sustainability, travel, and outdoor activities—bringing curiosity and a product-minded perspective to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Github Skills (12)
debian-packaging10
sh10
packaging10
script10
shell10
packager10
scripting10
package10
build-automation10
rpm10
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-core
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 19 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Oscar's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and improving the build process for the Brave browser. They've made changes to the shell scripts responsible for generating RPM and Debian packages, including adding dependencies for the Brave keyring. Furthermore, the user adjusted the build scripts to include a minimum version requirement for the keyring package, ensuring the packages are built with the necessary dependencies.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
oajara/tor_build_scripts
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
Build scripts for tor binary
Contributions:73 PRs, 6 pushes, 66 branches in 3 months
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