Software engineering/product lead,
live music aficionado, and serious coffee-drinker. You can find me hanging out with my dog by the grill.
Jason Goldstein
Jason lives just outside Washington, D.C. with his wife, their son and beagle. By profession, he builds and runs software teams that get big stuff done, mostly supporting the mission and business of journalism.
Jason was a journalism major who discovered he was having more fun building websites and experiences than actually doing reporting, and spent the last 16 years building software for news organizations. He's a hands-on tech lead and EM sometimes found wearing the product hat.
Jason spent nearly 10 years at The Atlantic, where he had a hand in nearly everything: new CMS, newsletters, video, responsive design, and of course, all things advertising.
He created and led the very first revenue product team focused on all things B2B: advertising, sponsorships, live events, etc. The mission: make best in class ad products, deliver them in smarter ways, build tools and workflows that empower every revenue-involved team across the org to deliver on challenging deadlines, and constantly improve the reader experience along the way.
Over the years he served as an IC, Engineering Manager, and periodically stunt Product Manager.
The systems and platforms his teams created were essential to The Atlantic's explosive growth, and many of them are still unique within the industry.
In 2022 he joined Scientific American as Director of Engineering, part of a major renovation job to reboot a legendary science publication for the modern era.
He built out a new team, replaced an ailing legacy codebase (an undocumented and unstable ColdFusion mashup on its last legs) with a modern platform, following best practices around site performance, UX, accessibility, and modernized the entire subscription business.
Today, they're focused on a bold new vision for what a science magazine should be in the year 2026. More on that later...
Fun Stuff
Jason has also been a hobbyist independent filmmaker (3 feature films, several shorts, many festival nominations), live music afficianado (peaking at 30 shows in one year), assistant to the beagle (who is a very good boy).
Over the pandemic he got into cooking, then became obsessed, and starting saying things like "how hard is it to make bagels?" "do I need a wok?" "you know the one cuisine I don't have a book for is French."
He's been working his way around the world in cookbooks, under the watchful gaze of a very hungry beagle.
Feel free to get in touch to talk technology—or better yet—swap recipes, or recommend a book. Some people like to share photos of their dogs, which are always welcome, especially when they're part beagle.
