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Jason Poteet

Engineering Leader · Staff Software Engineer

Austin, TXjasonsdevspace@gmail.comjasonsdevspace.comgithub.com/jasonsdevspace

Summary

Engineering leader and staff software engineer who leads teams and still ships code, across government, enterprise, and startup work.

Experience

  1. Clay

    Remote, Austin, TX

    1. Engineering Manager

      Aug 2025 to Present

      Leading a team of seven on sales and marketing data pipelines, CRM integrations, and the infrastructure behind AI research agents.

  2. Adobe

    Remote, Austin, TX

    1. Senior Engineering Manager

      2021 to Aug 2025

      Promoted into people management and kept shipping, leading five engineers plus QA on Adobe Commerce.

    2. Lead Software Engineer

      May 2017 to 2021

      Lead engineer on the Product Discovery drop-in for Adobe Commerce Optimizer, owning front end architecture for enterprise eCommerce clients.

  3. Foxtrot Code

    Remote, Austin, TX

    1. Senior Full Stack Engineer and DevOps Lead

      Jul 2015 to May 2017

      Built a codeless analytics and reporting platform on Splunk, and owned the AWS environments and delivery pipelines behind it.

  4. Sizmek

    Remote, Austin, TX

    1. Software Developer Lead

      Mar 2014 to Jul 2015

      Led UI and analytics tooling for an ad platform running in more than 70 countries.

Earlier

  • Defense contracting, IT and software contractor2010 to 2014
  • United States Department of Defense, IT contractor2005 to 2010
  • United States Air Force, Communications-Computer Systems Programmer2000 to 2004

Education

  • University of Texas at San Antonio

    M.S. in Computer Science

  • Park University

    B.S. in Computer Science. Completed remotely while serving in the United States Air Force

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Front end
React, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind CSS
Back end
Node.js, Fastify, Express, REST APIs, GraphQL
Data
PostgreSQL, Supabase, MySQL
Infrastructure and tooling
AWS, Lambda, Step Functions, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI and CD, Vitest
Observability
New Relic, Datadog, CloudWatch
Architecture and practice
Mentoring, Roadmapping, On-call, Hiring, Code review, Incident response

Hiring for a specific role? Email me and we can talk about whether I am a good fit. There is also a page on how I lead.