# Jason L.

> .NET software engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonl3

## Work Experience
### Software Developer @ Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Developer, Student Information Systems & Technology @ UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | Santa Barbara, California, United States
Built APIs to provide students with access to academic records and scheduling. Created new APIs and services based on .NET Core / .NET 6 that replace legacy batch systems.

Migrated multiple apps & systems from ASP.NET 3.5/4.0 to 4.8. 

Integrated Student Information System with Everbridge emergency contact platform.

Planned and implemented major data structure migration in legacy batch system.

### Software Engineer @ Invoca
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California, United States
Implemented two factor authentication user flow and administration, refactored user management system to patch security holes, added expiration functionality to user accounts. Documented complex and customized user permissions systems.

Add new features to customer facing API, add new features to high availability API

Maintained & expanded customer billing to track metrics based on usage pulled from warehouse, integrate billing with Zuora.

Integrated Salesforce Service Cloud with platform to process support requests.

Created an automated tool to free Customer Success reps. from a time consuming manual process (~10 man-hours/ week)

### Software Engineer @ ALG, A TrueCar Company
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Implemented a RESTful API using Java, Spring & Apache CXF that exposes ALG's underlying data set. Updated apps previously making calls directly to various database to use the API, centralizing all of our data and formulas to a single location

Created ASP.NET MVC 3, 4, 5 Web apps for internal users to set residuals, and for customers to view data. Migrated existing WebForms apps to ASP.NET MVC w/ AJAX (JQuery/Knockout, ExtJS)

Implemented a single sign-on for all of ALG's customer-facing Web apps using Microsoft's Forms Authentication MachineKey

Migrated our projects into TeamCity for Continuous Integration of the codebase, including tests and auto deployment to internal servers

Created WCF Services-base custom user management system backend to fit ALG's customer and pricing structure

Migrated homegrown public website to WordPress to allow Marketing & PR dept. to independently update the site

### Developer (contractor) @ Spark Interactive, Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Integrated Joomla with JomSocial plugin for single sign on with 3rd party vendor

Moved all Spark properties into SVN repository and taught other developers how to use it

### Programmer Analyst Senior @ LexisNexis
Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Developed byte-width, XML/SOAP and FTP interfaces to integrate ChoicePoint driver and vehicle history reports with PHP/Oracle Web-based policy administration system.

Created web-based tools for developers to use in daily coding tasks and testing

Implemented ACORD XML interfaces generation for policy administration system

Technical lead of MemberPoint project for Calif. State Auto. Assoc. (AAA Northern Calif.), acting in a customer facing role 

Integrated PHP web-based point of sale system with HUON mainframe system

### News Editor & Online Editor @ Daily Nexus
Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Managed and trained over 100 reporters, responsible for day to day news coverage and long term story planning. Wrote more than 150 news stories.

Updated in-house PHP/MySQL-based CMS to allow user commenting and moderation

Rewrote all front-end code to use standards-based XHTML/CSS; adding full page caching and SQL data caching, for better speed, scalability and reliability. Site was twice “Slashdotted” and survived without downtime after rewrite.

### Web Application Developer @ UCSB Instructional Computing
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Santa Barbara, California Area
Implemented custom task tracking Web app for in-house usage.

Implemented lab scheduling Web app used to coordinate usage of facilities.

### Web Application Developer @ Stanford University, School Redesign Network
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Integrated main site with bulletin board system; fixed bugs from previous contractor;
moved site databases and code from development server to production server

### Online Editor @ The Daily Nexus
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002

### Assistant Systems Administrator @ Vibrance Networks
Jan 2000 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco Bay Area


## Education
### UC Santa Barbara


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jasonla

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Last updated: 2026-04-10