Director, Engineering
Jason Pollentier
Since joining Revelry in 2017, Jason Pollentier has leveraged his extensive background in software development, SaaS innovation, and team leadership to drive the company forward. With a career spanning multiple industries and technologies, Jason drives engineering excellence across all projects.
Insights
Posts by Jason Pollentier.
DevOps
Planning and Executing a Successful Hosting Migration
February 26, 2026
Elixir / Phoenix
A Common Phoenix.Socket check_origin error and its Simple Fix
December 4, 2025
Back-End Engineering
Battle-Tested Lessons from 10 Years in a Single Codebase
November 6, 2025
Insights
The Importance of Trust in Partner Relationships
April 17, 2024
Artificial Intelligence
Creating an "Agent" Using OpenAI's Functions API
August 15, 2023
Artificial Intelligence
Using the OpenAI Functions API to Estimate Story Points
August 1, 2023
Back-End Engineering
Stop Camouflaging Your Software Bugs
October 22, 2022
Back-End Engineering
How to Kill Staging Without "Testing in Production"
April 12, 2022
Back-End Engineering
Wordle as a Metaphor for the Software Development Process
March 31, 2022
Back-End Engineering
Tackling Hard Problems Head-On (Can Be a Mistake)
March 24, 2022
Back-End Engineering
Elixir Releases: Moving Quickly Past Elixir 1.8 and Distillery 2.0
February 3, 2020
Back-End Engineering
Problem Solving and Learning on the Job as a Software Engineer
December 10, 2019
Back-End Engineering
My Introduction to Property Testing
June 28, 2019
Back-End Engineering
Mutation Testing to Really Understand Your Code
March 12, 2019
Back-End Engineering
Doing Algebra in Code: Looking Past the Details to the Math
November 29, 2018
Back-End Engineering
Optimizing Feedback Loops for Iterative Agile Development
October 22, 2018
Back-End Engineering
Tips and Advice for Dealing with Merge Conflicts
September 5, 2018
Back-End Engineering
How to Make Git History Useful to Humans
August 27, 2018
Back-End Engineering
Language Naming Conventions in Programming: It's All in the Context
July 4, 2018
Back-End Engineering
Vim + VS Code = <3
April 23, 2018
Blockchain / Crypto
"Put It On the Blockchain": How Bitcoin Technology Is Revolutionizing Everything
March 5, 2018
Back-End Engineering
Quick Setup for Testing Explorer in a Virtual Machine
November 13, 2017
Back-End Engineering
Change the Lens: How to Perform Your Own Code Reviews
September 21, 2017
Back-End Engineering
Write Better Software Tests with this Git Stash Trick
July 12, 2017
Meet The Team
Meet Jason Pollentier: Software Engineer and Natural Creator
June 2, 2017