Jonathan Thompson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

New York, NY, US

• As AOL’s Applications and Commerce Group CTO, managed a large technology team that included AOL Mail, AIM, Mobile, Games.com, About.me, Shopping, Shortcuts, and Identity.Liaised with ACG product groups to develop.
• Defined and championed a company-wide architectural “Foundation”. Built on four pillars (service-orientation, message bus communication, language agnosticism, and cloud nativism),this architecture defined common.
• Executed a new approach to mobile development that focused on reuse of common infrastructure, components, and automated testing. Resulted in accelerated delivery of mobile apps and mobile web experiences across all.
• Delivered a series of front-end and back-end achievements with AOL Mail, including the first webmail refresh in over 5 years, migration of 70M mailboxes to a new back-end architecture,and significant improvements to.
• Launched a major new release of AIM across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Initiated a rewrite of AOL’s 20+ year-old, organically grown legacy Identity system.

• Led Kiha’s development teams from prototype to scalable software solution for Kiha’s revolutionary mobile experience. Active across all parts of the organization (development, product management, project management.
• Defined, created, and executed on the strategic vision for Kiha’s architecture. Designed a high-performance, message-based, service-oriented architecture that supports dynamic addition and subtraction of service.
• Consistently improved development processes and practices. Championed a set of agile development practices that allowed teams to increase their feature delivery rate while improving overall quality. Instituted design.
• Mentored development managers. Created an environment of ownership and accountability.
• Educated and mentored internal staff. Instituted and led a series of seminars on strategic and tactical concerns, tailored to different departments within the organization.

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• Responsible for all aspects of the development organization, including the architecture, design, and implementation of the Delve Networks Media Platform – a media content management and delivery system that gives.
• Led the engineering team through the complete software development process, including requirements gathering, design, build process, test, deployment, and operational support.
• Designed and implemented Delve’s patented HearHere and SeeHere algorithm and system that let users search inside audio and video content.
• Architected and built a loosely-coupled set of services and worker tasks. Both synchronous (via web services) and asynchronous (via messaging) communication styles were employed. The platform scaled horizontally as.
• Engaged in all aspects of fundraising, recruiting, and product innovation.

Seattle, WA, US

• Senior technical role in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Responsible for the delivery of Mechanical Turk. Guided other teams within AWS and throughout Amazon via the core infrastructure group to define and build frameworks.
• Architect for Mechanical Turk project. Worked with a team of 20 developers to define APIs, design and build the services that composed the application, and build multiple, consumer-facing applications on top of APIs.
• Worked with technology leaders across AWS to define standards for common concerns including user management, service versioning, authentication, and service load-balancing.
• Rewrote a heavily-used Amazon-internal tool that forms the basis of Amazon’s SOA. The tool generates stub and skeleton code from service definition files and the rewrite improved runtime performance by more than 200%.

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• Senior member of a unique team responsible for both internal enterprise application architecture and to advise external customers on architecting their applications with the BEA product stack.
• Lead architect on a major re-architecture project for British Telecom’s high-volume, customer-facing website. On-site engagement involved interactions with 4 different BT divisions and over 100 developers, project.
• Provided technical input and handled technical questions for pre-sales presentations on BEA’s enterprise architecture and approach to application delivery.
• Reviewed and advised on architectural suitability to multiple product engineering teams including Portal, Liquid Data, WLES, Workshop, and Quicksilver.

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Redmond, Washington, US

Natural Language Product Group

Milpitas, CA, US

Core OS Group