Jason Porter has been involved in software development since the mid 90's. He has worked in e-Government (since before the term was coined), financial, and consumer markets. He has contributed to many open source projects including flyspray (a bug tracking system in PHP), Seam, Weld, and Gradle. His software interests include Java EE, Ruby, and Groovy. He is the father of two daughters and two sons and enjoys spending time with his family. He lives in the Salt Lake valley in Utah.