# Jason Smylnycky

> I'm a software engineer that loves all things Node & Javascript. I take great pride in excelling at my craft and finding ways to enrich my teams through best practice patterns and testable code.

Location: Farmington, Michigan, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonsmylnycky

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Littera Education
Jan 2022 – Present | Remote

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cengage Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
Cengage Learning is a leader in procuring high quality educational content for higher education, K-12,
professional, and library markets. I contributed to their success by leading the development and
maintenance of an in-house NodeJS based session management and reverse proxy service. This service
is acting as the front door to a catalog of learning products for millions of teachers and students around
the world.

● Responsible for the deployment and right-size scaling of the service to both AWS and
on-premise, as well as tuning of AWS autoscaling.
● Maintained service to ensure it continues to operate at peak loads of
tens-of-thousands requests per second, and sub-10ms response times, and repeated
year-over-year 99.9% uptime.
● Drove research initiatives to evaluate multiple groups of open source projects to evaluate
functionality, extensibility, performance and cost to run.
● Utilized iterative design patterns, using end-to-end contracts to ensure compatibility and minimal changes required by delivery teams.
● Built Splunk dashboards around the service to gather near real time stats and supplemental
monitoring.
● Ensured stability of all projects by utilizing testing suites such as Jest for unit testing, Playwright
for end to end, and Gatling for load and performance.
● Built custom front-end application into CloudFoundry, utilizing React and Fastify, for maintaining
per-host configurations of the reverse proxy service.
● Designed and built the Okta integrations for the service, enabling our higher education platforms
to seamlessly transition from in-house sessions to OIDC standards with minimal downtime and
code changes to their platforms directly.
● Worked with DevOps to enable near fully automated deployment strategy, including full functional,
integrational and performance tests.
● Gained solid understanding of W3C routing and proxying standards, and was able to mentor
team members on how to follow such standards.

### Frontend Developer @ PeachWorks
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Southfield, Michigan, United States
● Developed and maintained front-end platform for restaurants by location, leveraging custom
NodeJS utilities and Angular & React front-ends.
● Designed, implemented and published javascript libraries to npm.
● All modules built with CI/CD in mind, integrating with Jenkins and validating releases with
automated testing.
● Regularly performed code reviews via Pull Requests on github.
● Responsible for building tools to facilitate Dev & QA, such as a CLI tool that provides a developer
runtime resembling the production ecosystem for feature parity.
● Handled all front end related deployments through the environments.

### Software Developer @ RIIS LLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
● Completed CQ training at Adobe’s Virginia office.
● Maintained and extended bcbsm.com for 1 year, utilizing Adobe CQ and modernizing with
Bootstrap 3 and Angular.
● Built mobile banking application using Angular and PhoneGap.
● Consulted on numerous smaller projects while utilizing TDD and Agile practices


## Education
### Oakland University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Game Software Development
Westwood College - Denver North
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jason-smylnycky-a2631189

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Last updated: 2026-03-23