Jason Porter | SpeakerHub

Personal Details

Current position (3)

Principal Software Engineer

Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer

Red Hat

Software Engineer

W.J. Bradley

Degrees (1)

Computer Science

Neumont University

2004 to 2006

Bio

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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, the rest of the web language arena (HTML, CSS, JS, etc). His current position as Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat keeps him busy with internal tooling, however, he also contributes 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 father of five children. Spare time is precious as you can imagine!

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Presentations

Presentations (3)

Pay it Forward: Open Source

With the recent vulnerabilities discovered in Open Source projects such as HeartBleed, Shellshock, and POODLE there's a push towards more Open Source contributions from companies and people using Open Source. How can you or your company give back to Open Source? Maybe you're not a developer or it's too difficult to get started coding. Don't worry, there's always other ways to contribute to Open Source besides coding!

Great things can and do happen with Open Source learn how to be a great Open Source citizen, someone every project would like to have on their team. Learn the different ways to contribute and make a choice to better the Open Source software you currently use or will use in the future!

Building Communities

Open Source is about building a community of developers and users around a project willing to cooperate, exchange ideas and provide peer review. Participating in the project provides mutual benefit to all parties, including better software, skill improvement, respect, and being a member of a group of peers. But how does it happen? What motivates people to join your project? How do you grow the community?

This will be more a discussion format. Come learn what myself and others have learned about building communities! Everyone is welcome to share and benefit

Designers and Developers: Finding common ground for effective collaboration

Design is a crucial element to any software project. Sooner or later, the reasons for writing all of this code are going to be communicated to another human being who isn’t as familiar with the inner workings as the development team. Yet stereotypes exist on both side of the divide, engineers often expect designers to be flaky and irrational, while designers conversely expect engineers to be inflexible and demanding. The truth, as any reasonable person might expect, is considerably more nuanced and at the end of the day, the fates of designers and developers are forever intertwined.

Past talks (1)

Designers and Developers: Finding common ground for effective collaboration

Red Hat Summit

San Francisco, CA, USA

May 8, 2018