Jason is a software engineer currently working within the Business Process Automation division of Red Hat. He has also worked on Arquillian, Quarkus, and other developer experience projects within Red Hat. His specialties include Wildfly, Quarkus, CDI, JSF, Java EE, solr, and Gradle. He has worked with PHP, Ruby, Groovy, SASS, and the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc). He has contributed to JBoss Forge, Arquillian, Apache DeltaSpike, Awestruct, Asciidoctor, and others as time allows. He's very interested in the developer experience and helping to improve it in all aspects.

He has co-authored two books: Testing Java Microservices published by Manning and most recently Quarkus Cookbook published by O’Reilly. He has spoken at many conferences over the years including JavaOne, Devoxx Belgium, Devoxx Ukraine, Devoxx Morocco, and JavaLand in Germany. For the past several years he has also been President of the Utah Java Users Group. He is a native of Utah and a father of five children. Spare time is precious as you can imagine!

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GitHub: LightGuard