“Everyone that works with Jason loves working with Jason” - Rob Corell, VP of Engineering on Jason moving within SumUp.Jason is a lifelong learner and passionate software engineering leader with over 28 years of professional development experience. He has built several profitable SaaS companies in his career from the ground up, learning many lessons about simplifying complex architectures, cost efficient scalability, critical availability, broad organizational security and long-term system maintenance along the way.Jason believes in fostering collaboration through writing and that leaders should be widely published within the organization. Directives must stand on their own for a broad audience and writing is the birthplace of great collaboration. Jason enjoys helping others grow, and is a champion of learning and development within the engineering organization, leading Engineering Retrospectives, Developer Forums and Brown-bags. He is a teacher of communication tactics, leaning towards visual communication, especially around software architecture, intra and extra-team coms. Jason champions successful documentation tactics and has led wiki working groups. He has a dedication to improving continuous onboarding to bring greater understanding between product and engineering teams.With over a decade of iOS & Android experience, and over 15 years of leadership experience, Jason continuously strives to push his expertise "on both sides of the fence," maintaining his ability to write code while developing his ability to lead people.Things Jason lives by (foundations of his success):1. Put the customer first. 2. Automate repetitive processes, seek out opportunities daily.3. If it hurts, do it more (i.e. continuous integration, continuous deployment).4. Use fault injection and chaos engineering, design for outages.5. Draw diagrams liberally and use visual aids to bring the abstract into the concrete early.6. Terminate every meeting with action items.7. Always be on the lookout for new mentors.8. Hire the best.