# Jason Held > Software Engineer Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonheld Experienced with consumer, b2b, and enterprise software development and technology evolution. I work to help create/improve the story and impact that myself and my team can make to the platform; prioritizing modularity and concern for user's goals, while pursuing technical change for both, eyeing long term maintainability and scalability. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Qventus, Inc Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Empassion Health Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer @ JOOR Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Engineering Manager @ Linus Health Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States ### Senior Engineering Manager @ Ride Health Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 Multifunctional role within engineering and a liason for escalations, and client integrations. Manages external teams and contractors/consultants. Active resource for application development and bug fixes. Assisting with various improvements to DevOps processes and tooling, and occasionally SecOps tasks. ### Senior Director Of Engineering @ Circulation, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Defining the technical initiatives of the platform; soliciting feedback and collaboration from the larger engineering teams. Managing the Performance Engineering team to work through scalability/platform optimizations, as well as take on research & development projects (along with direct involvement with the larger teams on occasion). Additionally, directing the on-going scaling and load test projects; this initiative also includes a high level of synergy with the QA team -- combining our efforts for both strategy and test flows. ### Director of Backend Engineering @ Circulation, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Managed the Backend team (sprints, hiring, mentoring). Included assists in code reviews as well as system design and special projects. Helped build out a rotating side sprint for team members to contribute to platform scalability enhancements. This work eventually grew into a (mainly) separate team and my next role. ### Lead Backend Developer @ Circulation, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Senior Backend Developer @ Circulation, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 ### Backend Developer @ Circulation, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Software Developer @ Raizlabs Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area As part of the web team, my input helps define the types of tools and languages that are needed to solve the problems our clients face. My work relates mostly to full-stack & API development, and some DevOps (architecture & deployment). ### Software Engineer @ NetProspex Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Middleware development for database backed contact and business information. I enhance current scripts and services on the middleware and backend infrastructure, with a keen eye for robust and scalable performance designed to handle large client requests. Additionally, I help develop the backend workflow side of new features, using distributed computing models. I also enjoy creating engineering tools & utilities, usually around areas to reduce debug time for real-time project and data states. Particular experience includes: scalable architecture, data processing, and learning to further optimize systems through good high level language and API practices. ### Software Engineer @ Savant Systems Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Hyannis, MA I worked on integrating the Savant embedded hardware into the general control & a/v platform, as well as developing back-end/middleware processes and frameworks for the overall system and mobile-app support. My integration work includes keeping an abstraction above the firmware (with seldom firmware development) and automating the workflow of A/V connection setup, broadcasting statuses to an end-user client, processing custom audio & video settings, and also initiating manual & automatic upgrades of our field programmable flash parts. ### Web Developer @ Wayzata Results, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Developed the results messaging system for road and cross country races. This includes UI, back-end database and email/sms messaging. ### Student Research Intern @ Propylon Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Software Development for Kansas Historical Society. Software Development for Kansas Legislature. Django and Java programming. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science UMass Boston Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science The University of Kansas Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jason-held1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jasonheld JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jasonheld/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22