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Jason Smith

Jason Smith

[email protected]
Bangkok 10120
Thailand

Status

Position: Architect and technical lead at Iris Couch
Also: Apache CouchDB committer
Software: https://github.com/jhs

Work

Skill set: Infrastructure building with emphasis on open source software integration
Focus: Security, high availability, disaster recovery

March 2011 - Present

Founder, Technologist at Iris Couch

This company spun off from the previous. Daily work is little changed. No boss. No paycheck.

• Create DNS server to make content delivery network and highly-available web service (Node.js)
• Become Apache CouchDB committer
• Add more NoSQL and specialized database services: Redis, Graphite, ElasticSearch

March 2010 - March 2011

Vice President of Hosting and Lightning at CouchOne

• Design and implement cloud CouchDB hosting platform
• Create pluggable hybrid proxy/tunnel load balancer and router (Erlang)
• Create management tooling using CouchDB, Ruby, Node.js
• Create flexible, reliable CouchDB build, packaging suite: build-couchdb
• Contribute to CouchDB project (new features, bug fixing) as needed for hosting service

February 2006 - March 2010

Founder, Principal at Proven Corporation Co., Ltd.

• App Engine and Amazon AWS back-ends for iPhone back-ends (notably Grindr)
• Develop Java and .NET business applications on Second Life virtual worlds (Mono C#, IronPython, D-Bus)
• PM, lead developer of Linux workstation management tool, Starcat (90% market share of Thai banking industry)
• Release Strangle, open source Python/Twisted framework for processing DNS queries and responses

December 2002 - December 2006

Co-Founder, CTO at Open Enterprise Systems Co., Ltd.

• Technical architect and manager for telecoms, oil, and banking enterprise projects
• Create technical and research directions
• Lead a security audit of DTAC's heterogeneous server environment (3,000 servers)
• Design, develop of Linux cluster for G.E. Money (Thailand) web security application and http firewall
• Architect and develop high-availability product Global Load Balancer
• Architect and develop Windows security and stability product DiskSafe

Notable Achievements

• Built a scalable, highly-available database and web service used by millions, pretty much soup to nuts
• Became Apache CouchDB committer
• Designer, lead developer for Software Industry Promotion Association (SIPA) Linux distribution (Suriyan), providing infrastructure for Thai SMEs and governments