Jason Zajdel
About
Jason Zajdel is from Greater Seattle Area. Jason is currently Senior Engineering Manager, Adobe Content at Adobe, located in Greater Seattle Area. In Jason's previous role as a Engineering Manager, Adobe Stock at Adobe, Jason worked in Seattle, Washington, United States until Dec 2023. Prior to joining Adobe, Jason was a Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at Adobe and held the position of Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at Seattle, Washington, United States. Prior to that, Jason was a Full-Stack Web DevOp at Monsanto Company, based in Greater St. Louis Area from Oct 2015 to May 2016. Jason started working as Software Engineer at Multiply in Saint Louis, Missouri in Mar 2015. From Sep 2011 to Feb 2015, Jason was Development Lead at Local Backhaul, based in Chesterfield, MO, USA. Prior to that, Jason was a Technical Support at Smurfit-Stone, based in Creve Couer, MO from Apr 2011 to Sep 2011. Jason started working as Information Technology Services Intern at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri in Jan 2011.
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Jason Zajdel's current jobs
MANAGEMENT DUTIES - Ownership of team scaling ingestion of existing and new asset types, by multiple orders of magnitude, for Adobe Content. - Managed team of FullStack Software Engineers - Ownership of pipeline of delivering assets to various teams and organizations at Adobe. Including, but not limited to, Machine Learning teams, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Stock. - Ownership of integration of Adobe Content and Adobe Express. - Define individual and team goals and acted as a guiding hand in achieving them - Work with Product and Engineering leadership to achieve goals - Facilitate cross team and cross organization communication for achieving multi team goals - Build culture through collaboration and leadership across the team - Help anticipate issues and mentor on avoiding getting stuck on blockers. - Organized recruiting and interviewing talent for the team.
Jason Zajdel's past jobs
MANAGEMENT DUTIES - Managed a team of FullStack Software Engineers - Ownership of pipeline of delivering assets to Adobe Firefly - Ownership of integration of Adobe Stock and Adobe Express. - Ownership of Adobe Stock Bulk Asset Ingestion pipeline for Business Partners - Define individual and team goals and acted as a guiding hand in achieving them - Work with Product and Engineering leadership to achieve goals - Facilitate cross team and cross organization communication for achieving multi team goals - Help guide the direction of ingestion workflows to scale up our ingestion rate - Build culture through collaboration and leadership across the team - Help anticipate issues and mentor on avoiding getting stuck on blockers. - Organized recruiting and interviewing talent for the team.
PROJECTS • Codesigned and architected backoffice utility to replace legacy systems. • Designed, architected, and implemented service to downsample and create audiowaveforms of music files. • Lead Team building a Partner Content Ingestion Pipeline. • Lead team building Extension built into and shipped with Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other Adobe applications. • Team Member of Adobe Stock Contributors for initial V1 release. • Team Member rewriting Search interface using modern web stack. • Lead several Hackathon Projects • Work on inner company application integrations. • Work on integrations with other Media Partners. ADDITIONAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Cross Product Integrations • Review RFC's. • Write proposals and implementation of code and performance enhancements. • Code maintenance and bug fixes. • Code Review. • Unit testing.
TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Train other teams in React, Node, Javascript, and how to perform unit,integration, and automated tests in a Full-Stack Javascript environment. • Automated deployments. • Work in a fully autonomous DevOp rapid development team (1 week sprints). • Develop front-ends for Scientists and Researchers using Express and React. • Develop Micro REST Services in Node JS with Express. • Create unit, integration, and automated tests for all front and back development.
PROJECTS • Codeveloped and architected tools for admin and content management systems. • Part of the team to complete production ready development for dailybeat.com post Hackathon. • Built much of the content display technology driving new web enterprises. • Built new user role for Answers.com that is automatically awarded to users during continuous analysis of the 50+ million users on the site. • Part of team developing new career site for answers.com. • Built new RSS Feeds to feed content for new enterprises for Native App Team. ADDITIONAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide guidance and training to interns. • Code maintenance and bug fixes. • Peer Review. • Unit testing.
PROJECTS • Architected and built from the ground up a new company website with a custom made CMS back-end and a scaling fluid CSS design for viewing on any device. • Architected and implemented asynchronous Report Engine that included a server to client messaging system, as well as, automated scheduled reporting. • Part of team that migrated old procedural code base into CodeIgniter framework for more rapid and robust development cycles • Designed and implemented data graph streaming using the Flot jQuery library with data points as granular as one record per second. • Overhauled SaaS Application to support all versions of Internet Explorer 8+ for support of enterprise class clients. • Implemented custom theming for customers to be able to implement their own company themes directly into software. • Architected and implemented custom Support Report and Data Export Framework for generating custom reports internally, as well as, exporting data directly to customers. • Architected and implemented File Database Bootstrap System to be used in distributed web server environments. • Implemented customer maintenance ticketing system into software. ADDITIONAL TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Wrote multiple jQuery plugins and widgets for internal use. • Routinely worked on database SQL enhancements and efficiencies. • Implemented dynamic HTML E-mails. • Provided internal and external customer support. • Part of rotating team of Release Managers. • Performed software testing and quality assurance. • Worked directly with enterprise customers. • Responsible for image creation and manipulation using Photoshop, Gimp, and Illustrator.
Provided internal Microsoft Windows, company specific technologies and web based technical support for a multi-national company. Track record of excellence paired with every month of employment earning top cases solved and excellent customer service.
Performed various tasks to support the ITS department as well as perform research into different technologies within other departments for SLU. Created development environments for Researchers to develop math based applications in the CUDA C and JCuda environments.
Managed small teams of both front and back of the house employees. Routinely performed store operations paperwork, staffing and management. Additionally, provided front of the house customer service, as well as, often performed cooking duties.
Worked in various restaurants and banquet teams while undergoing a 18 month training program for hospitality management. Provided results driven hospitality in a 5 star 5 diamond location.