Jason King

Overview

I work on real-time systems at Everline Software in Austin. Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 29% in two quarters. Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 12 a week to 3. Before that: American Express and Procter & Gamble. Coffee nerd.

Replies on weekday evenings

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   May 2026 - Present
   Everline Software · 5 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 33 a week to 4.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 861ms to 148ms.
2. Engineering Manager

   May 2023 - May 2026
   American Express · 3 yr · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 19% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 23 launches on the real-time team without a rollback.
3. Software Engineer

   Aug 2019 - Mar 2023
   Procter & Gamble · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 39 a week to 4.
4. Software Engineer

   Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
   Fidelity Investments · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Wrote the low-latency systems service that now handles 3 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the real-time services from 692ms to 122ms.
5. Software Engineer

   Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
   Workday · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 4.

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Education

1. Harvard Business School

   MBA, Business Administration
   2015 - 2017
2. Cornell University

   BS, Mathematics
   2010 - 2014