Jason Perlow is an American technology and food

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expert. Since 2008 he has written for ZDNet, where he is a Senior Contributing Writer. He has also contributed to

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''Underscored'', writing kitchen product and consumer technology reviews.

Background

Perlow spent ten years as a technology consultant for

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Sharp Electronics is a Japanese electronics company. It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka, and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo, and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno-ku, Osaka, in 1924. Since 2016, it is majority ...

. He was a Senior Technical Editor for ''PalmPower Magazine'' and ''Windows CE Power Magazine'', a writer for ''Sm@rtReseller Magazine'', and was a Senior Technology Editor for ''Linux Magazine''. Perlow was the Editorial Director of the

Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects. Background The Linux Foundation started as Open Source Development Labs in 2000 to standardize and prom ...

between February 2020 and December 2023. Perlow was an Advisory Architect for

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

Global Technology Services' Server Optimization and Datacenter Relocation practice from September 2007 to December 2012. He worked for

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

in their Small to Mid-Market Solutions & Partners division (SMS&P) as a Technical Solution Professional and Partner Technology Advisor focusing on providing solutions for Cloud hosting providers from December 2012 to August 2017.. From 2017 to 2020, he held Technical Architect and Threat Researcher positions at

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and

Proofpoint, Inc. Proofpoint, Inc. is an American enterprise cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California that provides software as a service and products for Email security#Privacy concerns, email security, identity threat defense, data loss preventio ...

Foodie

Perlow founded the eGullet food discussion community along with food writer Steven Shaw in August 2001 and was its sole financial supporter, proprietor, and technologist. In 2004, he gave up his financial interest in the company. It became the eGullet Society for Culinary Arts and Letters, a

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, and he joined its

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. In February 2006, Perlow founded his personal foodie blog, ''Off The Broiler''. In April 2006, Perlow left eGullet and its board of directors to concentrate on Off The Broiler full-time. In 2007, Perlow decided to change his foodie lifestyle, a change which was chronicled by

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. Perlow was featured in a 2010 episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, about the formation of eGullet. Perlow currently lives in South Florida and is active in the area's restaurant community with his "Foodies Who Review South Florida" Facebook group and his restaurant reviews at TAP Into Coral Springs. https://www.tapinto.net/towns/coral-springs/sections/coral-springs-influencer/articles/jason-perlow-coral-springs-techie-with-passion-for-chronicling-his-eating-experiences

References

External links

"Off the Broiler" blog

"Tech Broiler" blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Perlow, Jason Living people American food writers American technology writers American bloggers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century births