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Jason Flenniken

Senior Technology Leader And Architect
Austin,TX

Summary

I'm a technology leader with 20+ years of experience as a Senior Software Development Manager, Solutions Architect, and Developer. Having diverse experience as both a leader and individual contributor, I understand the power of clear communication, trust, and supporting your team in building successful organizations. I'm passionate about continuously learning and improving, and not being afraid to make mistakes and learn from them moving forward. I firmly believe people are there best when they are heard, feel they can trust and communicate openly with their leaders, and are given opportunity and space to make decisions and grow.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Software Engineering Manager

ShiftKey, LLC.
Austin, TX
02.2023 - Current

ShiftKey is the leading software platform that is disrupting the way healthcare facilities find licensed and certified professionals to fill available shifts.

  • Responsible for leading a cross functional team responsible for multiple services and features within the ShiftKey platform, centering around surfacing and driving available shifts for professionals to work
  • Worked closely with product, design, and leadership weekly to drive new features and product growth
  • Mentor and lead full stack and mobile developers
  • Drove experiment heavy and data driven features, including multiple initiatives to drive a fair marketplace such as reliability scores, ratings and reviews, customized profiles and more.
  • Driving key architecture decisions and initiatives to move the platform to an event driven, microservices architecture
  • Constantly focused on building trust and a positive culture to bring out the best capabilities and job satisfaction of team members

Senior Solutions Architect

EBay, Inc.
01.2022 - 11.2022
  • Analyzed broad set of internal analytics tools and provided strategy and guidelines to unify developer experience, communication between applications, user experience, and better discovery and outcomes amongst product suite
  • Provided architecture guidance for eBay's automated data compliance efforts across many data warehouses
  • Communicated software architecture strategies to senior leadership and third-party business leaders
  • Prototyped numerous new applications for future expansion of organizations toolset
  • Mentored team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.
  • Architected and prototyped extensible access control system for suite of analytics applications

Senior Software Engineering Manager

eBay, Inc
02.2016 - 01.2022
  • Led global team of engineers to deliver multiple iterations of web and mobile analytics applications widely used by 2500+ employees including executive team to report and monitor eBay's business health metrics
  • Engaged in regular performance reviews, goal setting and mentoring for team
  • Coordinated work, strategy, and delivery across multiple time zones with a global team
  • Fostered culture of openness, risk taking, autonomy and growth
  • Worked with many cross functional teams including data engineering, business analysts, product owners, and upper management to guide strategy, develop and communicate clear business and technical requirements, and prioritize development
  • Led architecture and set best practices for application platform and API design, continuous development, monitoring, high availability and scaling/performance
  • Mentored junior developers and engineers through onboarding process and long-term team contributions.

Architect / Developer

eBay, Inc
11.2013 - 02.2016
  • Developed fully open source web application analytics platform for eBay's business health metrics, migrating away from a commercial solution while providing agility, performance, and features not possible before
  • Set development standards and application design principles for ease of growth and change within application development lifecycle

Director of Development

Sparksight, Inc
11.2011 - 11.2013
  • Responsible for managing development team and architecture for a suite of applications centered around live event digital marketing and asset management
  • Worked with stakeholders in business responsible for ROI and strategy to keep product development in line with business goals
  • Developed core Leading Reach product backend and interfaces
  • Worked to improve and stabilize product allowing for multi tenancy and agility, allowing product to span into multiple verticals.

Manager

Zilker Ventures
10.2009 - 11.2010
  • Managed a team of open source developers for a series of Drupal based web sites
  • Trained and mentored staff in development methodologies and Drupal best practices Worked with leadership team to develop future web strategy.

Education

High School Diploma -

Crocket High School
Austin, TX
08.1989 - 05.1993

Skills

Javascript

Infrastructure

Agile / Scrum

Kubernetes

NoSQL Datastores

Systems Architecture

Nodejs Reactjs

Requirements analysis

Excellent Communication

Analytical and Critical Thinking

Product development

Microservices architecture

Timeline

Senior Software Engineering Manager

ShiftKey, LLC.
02.2023 - Current

Senior Solutions Architect

EBay, Inc.
01.2022 - 11.2022

Senior Software Engineering Manager

eBay, Inc
02.2016 - 01.2022

Architect / Developer

eBay, Inc
11.2013 - 02.2016

Director of Development

Sparksight, Inc
11.2011 - 11.2013

Manager

Zilker Ventures
10.2009 - 11.2010

High School Diploma -

Crocket High School
08.1989 - 05.1993
Jason FlennikenSenior Technology Leader And Architect