Summary
Jesse Dejong is a software engineer at Google, currently building on Managed Kafka and bringing nine years of experience delivering scalable, distributed systems. His prior roles include a software engineer stint at Palantir Technologies and multiple internships at Google and Meta, highlighting a track record across leading tech ecosystems. A UT Austin computer science graduate, he is based in New York and actively contributes to open-source projects and full-stack initiatives. During a Google STEP internship, he built an open-source portfolio site and a friend-matching social platform, gaining hands-on experience with design docs, code reviews, and cloud APIs. He combines strong coding skills with a pragmatic focus on production-ready solutions, from RESTful frontends to backend services, and has a proven ability to ship impactful features.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin