Summary
Jay Contonio is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer with more than two decades of combined product design and development experience. He currently leads frontend engineering at Codingscape and previously served as Technical Director (Front-end) at Bonkey, where he built high-performing teams and optimized budgets and processes. His full-stack skill set spans HTML5, CSS/Sass, JavaScript (React, Angular, Next.js), PHP, Node.js, Ruby, SQL, GraphQL, and MongoDB, with a relentless focus on performance, accessibility, and web standards. He has led award-winning design and engineering efforts for major brands such as Google, Starbucks, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and FedEx, merging design thinking with engineering excellence. Based in Portland, Oregon, Jay brings a practical, design-minded approach to shipping reliable software, and outside work he enjoys motorcycles, music, and time with his dog.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer