Jason is an OPTIMA software engineer based in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He has extensive programming experience in a wide range of areas including web development, systems programming, and low-level embedded programming. Jason is involved in the development of the MiniZinc constraint modelling language compiler, integrated development environment (IDE), and related projects, as well as the organisation and execution of the MiniZinc Challenge, a competition which benchmarks and compares various constraint solving technologies.