Jason Porter

JASON PORTER has been crafting software since he was 12. A couple of years before that, he discovered the amazing world of computers and programming on an old 80286 while looking through games written in BASIC. His interest in programming led him to Java and then C/C++. He became involved in web development in the early days, with Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. Fighting with things like DHTML and layers occupied his time. At the venerable age of 15, Jason got a job with a local web development company and spent time coding websites and writing CGI scripts in Perl. (He tries to forget those days, though.) Since that time, he’s worked in various industries, coding in Java, PHP, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript. He primarily considers himself a backend developer, but the entire coding landscape is his playground.

At Red Hat, Jason has worked on various frameworks, websites, and integrations. He’s spoken in the United States and internationally and is tickled every time he can help someone better understand a programming concept or new technology. Jason lives in Utah with his lovely wife and five children, whom he can’t program as easily as a computer.