About

Jason Goodwin is a highly experienced and skilled Principal Something or Other, with over 15 years of experience in software engineering and distributed systems. He is an Event-Oriented Hacker, Author, DJ, Producer, and Photographer, with a passion for partying on weekdays and not wearing pants to work. Despite his antics, Jason is a sought-after talent in the industry, and he has been approached by numerous recruiters. Currently, Jason is working at soup funky monkey dog slurpy factory moo cubicle zone on the beach underground bunker in the sky, where he has built various things with code and argued with smart people, learning to be less pedantic and more flexible in his opinions. He has also evolved as a human, with new teeth and an extra toe. Prior to his current role, Jason worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Elastic, where he was part of a fully distributed team building distributed systems. He also served as Director of Engineering at Funnelcloud, where he designed core services in Elixir and Scala, applying domain-driven design with functional programming and the actor model. He was particularly proud of designing an Elixir umbrella application to draw bounded contexts around aggregate roots with no shared libraries. He also improved existing applications, achieving a couple of orders of magnitude improvement in throughput. Jason holds a degree in International Business from Fleming College, which he completed in 2007. He has a strong technical skill set, with expertise in Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, Scala, and Kafka. Overall, Jason is a highly talented and versatile professional, with a passion for building distributed systems and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with code. He is only accepting job offers that pay in ADA locked at today's rate for the next 10 years.