Jason Kurian

🎒 Experience

Flexpa | Staff Developer
May 2023 - Jan 2024

• Shipping new extract-transform-load pipeline for patient data serving over 2000 requests/minute with 99.9% success (Redis, Node). This new architecture allows us to provide expectable and reliable connections to over 200 APIs covering 135MM+ lives.
• Leading a small agile team through scoping, shaping, and shipping projects from the ground up for our customer facing applications in the monorepo (UX, a11y, Next.js, Turborepo).
• Providing high quality coaching and mentoring in code reviews, pairing, and 1:1s to help the team grow and improve.
• Defining great defaults for practices like retrospectives, pairing, and internal documentation to improve the team’s effectiveness; e.g. running our quarterly retreat where we dig deep into OKRs, Product roadmap & understanding, and constructive personal and team feedback.

Shopify | Senior Web Developer
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023

• Championed the successful release of interactive codeblocks and enabled live rendering of Shopify liquid templating language. This improved satisfaction by >=25%.
• Delivered new Vite-powered Shopify app template (React, Node), improving adoption of best practices for Shopify app developers and over 500 new GitHub stars for the repository in 2 months.
• Shipped an integration with a major postal carrier for all Canadian merchants with over 80% adoption rate (Rails, React).
• Co-authored and implemented a new design system for Shopify.dev to support dark mode + multi-theming to WCAG accessibility standards.
• Contributed to the industry-leading redesign of Shopify’s REST & GraphQL API documentation.
• Mentored early-career developers to improve skills and knowledge of best practices in Rails, GraphQL, React, CSS, Git, and other tools.
• Conducted interviews for early career developers and improved the interview and evaluation process; led to successful hires of high potential candidates.

Paddle HR (acq. LinkedIn) | Senior UX + Fullstack Developer
May 2019 - Aug 2020

• Designed and led the implementation of robust & extensible JAMstack architecture and design system for Paddle’s main product offering.
• Led the adoption of GraphQL to easily build useful UIs on top of our 440MM+ pt dataset on career history and skills trajectories and derive useful insights for 30K+ enterprise users.
• Supervised a Junior Developer and mentored them through daily processes and ad hoc projects helping them become a contributing member of the team.
• Facilitated team retrospectives to promote team and individual growth & pruned meetings leading to continuous improvement of processes and effectiveness of experiments.
• Reviewed several applicants and conducted personal and technical interviews. Received positive feedback from applicants for the interview process and mentorship provided.

Nulogy | Fullstack Developer
Aug 2016 - Aug 2018

• Co-invented and implemented storybook driven development - a methodology for rapidly prototyping/developing visual components - with senior team members.
• Built a data-intensive dashboard serving millions of rows of data with PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, React, and Redux to help planners derive insights from historical data.
• Developed consistent component / container pattern for data deserialization and visualizations and shared language with the design team, work that led to the full-fledged design system.

Rangle.io | Junior Developer
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016

• Co-led tooling & maintenance of OSS starter projects, making new projects start up 2-5x faster & enabling the aggressive staffing model Rangle uses.
• Consolidated 2 internal products using Koa and React + Redux, managing large datasets from multiple scheduling APIs to set up future employee and company success.