Summary
Jonah Turnquist is a seasoned software leader and founder/CTO based in Sydney with 16 years of experience delivering scalable, customer-focused software. As founder and CTO of PropCode since 2022, he leads building technology to simplify urban planning regulations while maintaining a strong emphasis on accuracy. Previously, as CTO at togetherAI, he scaled engineering practices from startup to early-stage and steered the product's AI strategy focused on family wellbeing. At Service NSW, he built the agency's first AI engineering team and delivered NLP, topic modeling and conversational content management to improve resident services. His earlier roles at Atlassian and Amazon span core backend and platform work—shipping products for hundreds of thousands of users, driving developer tooling, and achieving a 40% reduction in bug resolution time. A UC Berkeley BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and altMBA alum, he combines rigorous technical training with entrepreneurial drive.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
altMBA
Diablo Valley College