# Jason Brown > Senior Staff Engineer at ReadySet Technologies Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonbrown1 Seasoned software engineer with a specialty in distributed systems, databases, and microservices. I have developed and operated SQL/NoSQL databases for massive scale at Apple, Netflix, and Stripe. I lead and guide teams to operate with urgency, purpose, and always within the context of the business. ## Work Experience ### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ ReadySet Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building new distributed systems/databases/caches, super exciting! ### Staff Engineer @ Stripe Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Staff Engineer supporting the Online Databases org. Primarily working with the DocumentDB team, which operates and supports MongoDB for most OLTP uses. I oversee the end-to-end OLTP infrastructure for our massive MongoDB deployment. Projects include improved durability, database upgrades, client SDKs, and diving into the internals of MongoDB to support the operation of it. Currently leading efficiency efforts to run MongoDB on arm64-based cloud instances (AWS gravitons). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Los Gatos, CA Researched, launched, supported, and contributed to CockroachDB at Netlfix. We had a need for highly-available, multi-region, transactional SQL databases, and CockroachDB fit the bill. I worked closely with engineering at CockroachLabs to resolve bugs and get features added to support Netflix use cases. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, CA I work on the Apache Cassandra team at Apple. In addition to supporting the operation of Cassandra at Apple's massive scale, I rewrote Cassandra's inter-node networking layer for messaging (CASSANDRA-8457) and file streaming (CASSANDRA-12229). Earlier I worked on the Applied Machine Learning team at Apple, where my team reimplemented secondary indices for Cassandra, code named SASI. ### Senior Software Engineer - Web Services / Data architect @ Netflix Jan 2008 – Jan 2014 | Los Gatos, CA I led a small team that was the first adopter of Cassandra at Netflix as well as running the AB testing infrastructure. Migrated several services out of Netflix's datacenter and into our EC2 deployment. Now working on Cassandra and related tooling. Delivered several internal talks on topics such as Cassandra as well as HTTP caching/Squid. ### Associate Director, Commerce @ Major League Baseball Advanced Media Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Same duties as Lead Architect, but with greater recognition of my management of the commerce group and initiatives. ### Lead Architect, Commerce @ Major League Baseball Advanced Media Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Rearchitected the existing mlb.com digital subscription e-commerce system into an SOA-based platform. The revised system allows MLB Advanced Media to grow profit from digital content by 20% per year. Platform Aspects include: - Building out an end-to-end e-commerce solution: shop cart, transaction processing, order fulfillment. - Clean room redesign of e-commerce data model, both in domain objects and database schema. - Major components (implemented as SOAP-based web services) include a product catalog, order processing, and campaigns systems. - Technologies employed: Hibernate, Axis2, JAX-RPC, JMS messaging, JiBX, standard web-application components (Servlets/JSP), Struts, PL/SQL, deployed on Solaris 9 servers. - Support for multiple payment providers/gateways for credit cards, e-checks, PayPal, gift cards, loyalty point transactions - Manage a team of internal engineers and outsourced developers (both in-house and in India) for commerce initiatives. - Lead research on new approaches to web services, migrating from RPC-style interfaces to loosely-coupled message-style interactions for both SOAP and JMS-style invocations. ## Education ### Master of Music in Music Composition Ball State University ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Music Millikin University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jasedbrown - Website: http://softwarecarnival.blogspot.com/ - Website: http://www.slideshare.net/jasedbrown --- Source: https://flows.cv/jasonbrown1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jasonbrown1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01