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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. I lead teams and still ship code, across government, enterprise, and startup work. Equally at home in a design review, a one-to-one with an engineer working out their next step, or deep in a problem that needs solving.

Experience

  1. Clay

    Remote

    1. Engineering Manager

      Aug 2025 to Present

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

  2. Adobe

    Remote, Austin · 8 yrs

    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

    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

    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

    Master of Computer Applications. Computer Software Engineering

  • Park University

    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science. Completed remotely while serving in the United States Air Force

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL
Frontend
React, Next.js, Vite, Tailwind CSS
Backend
Node.js, Fastify, Express, GraphQL
Data
Postgres, Supabase, MySQL
Infra & Tooling
AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, Vitest
Architecture & Practice
Mentoring, Roadmapping, On-call, Hiring, Code review, Incident response