“Jon lives and breathes JavaScript and frontend/web technologies. He inhales tweets and tech blogs, knows all the latest projects on Github and, most importantly, knows which ones are applicable to the problems his engineering team is facing. After a couple years building frontend applications at Coursera, Jon was looking for a new challenge. So, we created a role for him as the founding member of the frontend infrastructure team. Jon and the team helped engineers push through an epic technology migration to React, webpack and server-side rendering, all tied together with modern, immutable deployment tooling that empowers engineers to ship 30-40 changes to production every day. In addition to his engineering accomplishments, Jon has had a big impact on company culture. Most notably, he conceived and launched Coursera’s Make-a-thon, a bi-annual event that gives everyone in the company the opportunity to make, innovate and engage with each other. He also a huge proponent of the Tuesday night “beer club” and diversity hiring. Jon is an amazing startup engineer through and through and I’m certain he’ll achieve great things in his career.”
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Trying to build a habit of posting on LI. Figured I'd start by sharing a recent conversation I had with The Block highlighting some of the DePIN…
Trying to build a habit of posting on LI. Figured I'd start by sharing a recent conversation I had with The Block highlighting some of the DePIN…
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awesome to see teams putting in their due diligence on the many aspects of #Solana that make it perfect for payments. even more awesome to see some…
awesome to see teams putting in their due diligence on the many aspects of #Solana that make it perfect for payments. even more awesome to see some…
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Solana Foundation
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Mentor
Hackbright Academy
- 2 years 3 months
Science and Technology
Helped mentor Suzanne Stallings, Tanya Regan, Audrey Hart, and Parul Baweja through their bootcamp program.
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Mentor for Andy Rosales-Elias
Code2040
- 3 months
Science and Technology
As part of the Code2040 Summer Program, was chosen by Andy to help him through the summer.
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Mentor for Kelvin Sarabia
Code2040
- 3 months
Science and Technology
As part of the Code2040 Fellows Program, served as a mentor for Kelvin Sarabia as he undertook his internship at Foursquare in San Francisco.
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We Have We Need
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Implemented key features for this humanitarian engineering project. Mentored newcomers to Django and the MVC structure while getting a taste of MongoDB.
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English
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Tau Beta Pi
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