Jason Palacios

Jason Palacios has a diverse range of work experience. Jason is currently working as a Software Engineer III at Fieldwire, where they are part of the Dataflow team providing back-end engineering support for the Ruby on Rails monolith. Jason has delivered new features and enhancements for the Fieldwire Admin platform and actively maintained a feature that enables customers to synchronize Fieldwire data with popular cloud storage providers.

Before joining Fieldwire, Jason worked at Charles Schwab for several years. Jason started as a Software Developer I in the Research and Development team, where they explored technology trends and their impact on the financial services industry. Jason presented prototypes to senior executives and gained exposure to a variety of technologies, including NLP, real-time speech transcription, computer vision, data analysis, and IoT. Jason then progressed to the role of Software Developer III, where they were promoted and given technical leadership responsibilities. Jason applied SOLID design principles and TDD methodologies to ensure code maintainability and used modern version control best practices.

Prior to their time at Charles Schwab, Jason worked as a R&D Summer Intern at Charles Schwab, where they developed experimental visualizations of financial equity data and evaluated a behavioral biometrics platform. Jason also worked as a Summer Intern at uShip, where they implemented UI for third-party application access management page and developed reusable React components. In addition, they migrated static email templates and website links.

Jason's work experience also includes being an Undergraduate Researcher at The University of Texas at Austin, where they extended a neural network to support dynamic weight values under the guidance of Dr. Joel Lehman.

Overall, Jason Palacios has demonstrated a strong background in software engineering with an emphasis on back-end development, technical leadership, and exploration of emerging technologies.

Jason Palacios completed an Associate of Science degree in Computer Science from South Texas College from 2011 to 2013. Jason then went on to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin, which they completed from 2013 to 2016.