Jason Sims

Staff Software Engineer

Full-stack engineer who ships end to end, from production LLM-agent infrastructure at work to a cross-platform desktop app with its own community. TypeScript and Go, with deep AI-agent integration experience.

Agent-first by habit: parallel Claude Code sessions in isolated git worktrees, Herdr to keep tabs on them, VS Code for reading code and reviewing the diffs they produce.

[email: hello@jsonsims.com]

[github: @jasonsims]

[linkedin: in/jsonsims]

Projects

Slack-native engineering agent

Pendo

Takes a ticket, works the codebase, opens the pull request

An agent we call Hork, built 0 to 1 and working across a multi-repo codebase. It picks up new bugs as they're filed and jumps on CI failures on its own; an @-mention points it at a specific ticket. Bug triage came first, then smaller feature work.

Each investigation is a live session bound to a Slack thread, not a one-shot prompt. Reply to redirect it mid-run, add context like screenshots or logs, or approve the pull request it's offering.

TypeScript · Hono · Claude Managed Agents · MCP · GCP Cloud Run · Firestore

ROMie

Open source

Desktop app for syncing ROM libraries to retro handhelds

Shipped for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with an active Discord community. An extensible device-profile system maps ROMs to the right layout per handheld OS, with RetroAchievements verification by MD5 hash.

Electron · Vue 3 · TypeScript · Node.js

Experience

Staff Software Engineer @ Pendo

2020 — Present

Lead engineering across the product suite and build the internal AI-agent infrastructure our engineers use. Promoted to Staff in 2024. Cut a critical Node.js microservice's execution time by 40% and localization turnaround by 80%.

Staff Engineer @ Nutanix

2012 — 2020

One of the first 100 employees; helped scale it into a billion-dollar public company. Built the first customer-facing web portal, led the VM Management UI migration from Backbone to React, and hold US Patent #10133619.

Corporate Engineer @ Google

2010 — 2012

Automated inventory management and network port assignments with Python, reducing manual IT workloads across global offices.

Technical Skills

Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Go · Python · Bash
AI & Agents: Anthropic SDK · Claude Managed Agents · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · Multi-tool orchestration · Human-in-the-loop design
Frontend: React · Vue · Next.js · Nuxt · Tailwind · Electron
Backend: Node.js · Hono · Express · Go · WebSockets · OpenAPI
Cloud & Data: GCP (Cloud Run, Firestore) · AWS (S3, ECS) · Docker · MongoDB · SQLite
Build & Testing: Vite · GitHub Actions · CircleCI · Jest · Cypress

Education

B.S., Applied Networking and Systems Administration · Rochester Institute of Technology

Programming with Google Go (Specialization) · University of California, Irvine

2024