Hello web-person. My name is Jason Robinson.
In case you are here to learn a little bit about me, I am a US based technical leader, engineer, and specialist in the field of web based applications.
In the last 20 years or so I've helped grow billion dollar companies, I've architected multi-national and peta-byte scale applications. I've been a cloud architect, a product owner, a project manager, a dev manager, a systems administrator, and held a myriad of programming titles. I've dabled in books, played with patents, given talks on corporate stages, and been lucky enough to learn from an amazing set of people.
The world changes quickly though. It's not what you did yesterday in tech that defines you, but what you can do tomorrow. So for anyone who is here looking to hire me, I bring to the table not just my experience, but my continued passion for building great products. I am light hearted, inventive, and always learning something new. I believe the internet is the most important invention of my lifetime and I am looking for the right company and the right position to put my skills and my energy into.
Principal Engineer (2019 - Today) - Currently leading a cross company effort to design and implementation GoDaddy’s next generation development system where engineers obtain and manage public and private cloud resources as well as drive applications though GoDaddy's application lifecycle. Designed and led the creation of GoDaddy’s budgeting, showback, and fiscal alerting systems. Led multiple teams in the creation of GoDaddy’s rigor review system and designed the unified resource and authorization system to secure and help manage all development resources throughout the company for operations, patching and support. Responsible for helping shape the application lifecycle at the company as well as providing documentation and presentations to educate on that lifecycle. 20% of my time is also allocated to particpation in a number of company standards groups and solutions comittees to help drive positive change and solve technical gaps that exist across techincal areas in the company.
Architect / Dev Manager / Product Owner (2014 - 2019) - Charged with managing several teams and the goal of providing GoDaddy developers with a self-service system for private cloud resources and infrastructure (compute, storage, load balancing, etc..). Responsible for gathering needs, determining features and priorities, API design and review, architecting and programming the skeleton of the application, and running beta/pilot programs. Personally developed, piloted, and established company-wide standards for, authorization and resource ownership. Served as an advocate / speaker / consultant to other groups within the company giving regular tech talks, presenting at tech conferences, and helping teams develop strategies for migrating their applications to this platform.
Product Lead (2009 -2014) - Led the development of GoDaddy’s PHP based cloud storage offering (Online File Folder). Responsible for organizing and leading the multi-year effort to update the interface, libraries, architecture, capability & capacity of the product. Grew product customer base nearly 400% from 8k to over 35k paying customers, grew storage capability from tens of gigabytes to multi-peta-byte scale, and evolved it from a single DC driven monolith serving only US customers via one storage vendor to a multi-zone, multi-regional, multi-vendor REST driven micro-service application that included a patented system for domain tie-in and access of personal files.
Consultant / Developer (2007-2009) - Consulted with and developed fully custom websites for high profile GoDaddy partners/customers (Orange County Chopper, Jillian Michaels, African Safari Company, and more) in a variety of programming languages & platforms. Responsible for all phases of development from spec gathering and cost estimation to architectural design and programming of each project. Created adaptable and reusable architectures for future development and standardized development/deployment procedures.
Lead Engineer / Project Manager - Responsible for the design, architecture and initial code for 3 separate HIPAA and PCI compliant web applications. An ASP Classic e-commerce solution, A VB.NET based CRM/reporting system, and a C# hosted pharmacy application with integrated shipping output. Worked with vendors, screened, hired, and trained development staff, and ultimately served as a technical leader and project manager for the company focused on enhancing usability, security and performance.
Senior Applications Specialist - Lead programmer for JAVA/JSP based personal and business portals for Verizon’s Internet division (Verizon Online). Also worked on various internal projects including a series of Cold Fusion based tools for managing Verizon’s billboard advertisements, PERL based harvesters to pull in content from partners like the Wall Street Journal, and Flash architectures used in various company projects like their DSL installation CD’s.
Web Developer - Contracted to develop and maintain GTE's DSL Marketing web site and portal. Responsibilities included basic site maintenance, graphics creation and optimization, content editing, and research and development. .