Jonathan Young Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

New York, NY, US

I am an individual contributor manager at SevenRooms, spending 80% of my time writing code and 20% of my time managing three teams of engineers (API Infrastructure, Partnerships, and Point of Sale Integrations).

New York, NY, US

I led a team of 8 backend engineers and coded features to build the Venmo Teen Card. I was also responsible for creating epics, breaking down features into stories, assigning work, and leading all sprint ceremonies. I was in frequent communication with product & design and represented my team to higher-level executives.

New York, NY, US

I developed many features for the Venmo Credit Card (VCC) as a backend engineer (Django, Python, Kafka). Some notable features include deploying VCC as it's own microservice (reduced merge times by 99%+), all account servicing screens (these pages average 300 requests/second with minimal latency), and building functionality such as reporting a card as lost.

Chicago, Illinois, US

As Director of Education and employee #1 at Code Platoon, I wore a great number of hats. I taught students, managed a team of 16 instructional staff, was responsible for creating new programs, and evangelized our mission to the community.Achievements:- Taught over 350 military veterans / spouses with over 93% of students receiving offers in software.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, IL, US

During my time at DRW, I was tasked with automating several tedious manual processes for the Facilities team to increase productivity. Using Python/Flask, I developed a chatbot that hooked into Mattermost, an open-source messaging platform that reached out to a number of Rails 5 applications that I wrote. The Facilities team saw a 90% decrease in the.

Baltimore, MD, US

As a Software Engineer at OneMain, I worked primarily in the RoR ecosystem (Rails 4, Ruby 2.2.4, Postgres, Slim) with a sprinkling of Javascript (vanilla and jQuery). I was the top contributor for 40% of the most widely used repositories on my team and in the top 3 contributors for 60% of the other repositories.This role married dev and business roles as I.

New York, NY, US

As a part-time web development instructor, I taught numerous classes for GA, including: Introduction to Ruby, Introduction to Rails, and Introduction to Web Development. These classes were over taught on nights/weekends and consisted of classes from 4 to 12 students.

Chicago, IL, US

While at Groupon, I worked in the RoR ecosystem (Rails 3, Ruby 1.8.7). This software engineering role married being a web developer, database engineer, and business analyst all into one. My team was authorized and responsible for updating/maintaining customer records in the production database while also creating tools for customer service representatives.

New York, NY, US

Through Teach for America, I worked as a Special Education teacher in the Chicago Public Schools system at a low-income high school called Harper High School. Harper received national attention when it was featured in a two-week segment of NPR's "This American Life." While at Harper, I taught 5 classes of special education Algebra I, Algebra II.

Bachelor Of Science - Cs

Pre College Diploma