Jason McCandless

Data Platform Engineer → Full Stack Developer

After years in platform and data engineering, I’m channeling my passion into building full stack web applications.

My other interests include golf, travelling, & online gaming.

2025–Present
Freelance Full Stack
Building a portfolio of web applications. Undertaking the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification course.
2022–2025
Data Platform Engineer
Integrated a vended Feature Store (Hopsworks) into the data pipeline. Managed ~120 RHEL Servers across 2 data centers and 3 environments. Worked with Data Scientists and other key stakeholders to enhance data accessibility and usability. Attended regular CAB meetings to demonstrate platform changes for production deployment. Delivered a smoke test suite to continuously validate platform uptime and serve as an early-warning system.

Tech: Hopsworks, Apache Kafka, Java, Python, BASH, RHEL 8, Ansible (Infrastructure as Code), Github for version control
2021–2022
Big Data Engineer
Worked with the Policy data team before it merged with Claims and Quotes to form a Data Lake. From there onwards I supported Claims, Quotes, and Policy MDMs existing applications as the Data Lake team began to build out new infrastructure.

Tech: Dremio, Spark/Scala, Unix
2019-2020
Test Data Analyst
Worked within the Privacy department's Obfuscation team. Used data masking techniques to protect sensitive information using Ab Initio and Delphix. Engineered a dashboard within our Obfuscation as a Service tool to extract and visualize obfuscation metrics.

Tech: Ab Initio, Delphix, Bash, RHEL, SQL, ETL

Greensided
A golf-themed social media platform.
Users can create accounts, share their golfing experiences, and connect with other golf enthusiasts. They can sign up to clubs and participate in discussions/competitions, as well as log rounds across the world.

Tech: HTML, CSS, SQL, RESTful APIs, Next.js, TypeScript, Mantine, Vercel, Render, Supabase
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Upcoming Projects
These are projects I am currently working on or planning to start soon to expand my skill set:

Task Tracker
Task management tool built with React Native.
Pet-Sitting Service App
Flask app for connecting pet owners with sitters, with GraphQL.