Jon Bauer
Co-Founder at GitView
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Bauer is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with over a decade of building and scaling technology companies. As a co-founder of a stealth startup and founder of GitView, he blends hands-on software craft with strategic product leadership, most recently leading engineering as VP of Engineering at Obie, and previously shaping engineering teams at Popular Pays and Carbon Cash. Based in Chicago, he has led multi-disciplinary teams through fast growth, YC-backed environments, and complex systems—from fintech/insurtech platforms to creator marketplaces. His technical footprint spans full-stack development and modern infrastructure, including Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Ember.js, Swift, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, with a track record of shipping high-quality, well-tested software at scale. Jon started his career interning at Microsoft and TechSmith, earned a CS degree from Michigan State University, and continues to found and advise startups while mentoring engineers.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (125)
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static-analysis9
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code-analyzer9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PopularPays/jsonapi-matchers
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Helper Gem for testing JSON API formatted payloads
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 10 months
apitestinggempayloadsjson-api
bauerjon/git2json
May 2018 - Nov 2020
Convert git logs to JSON for easy analysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
to-jsonjsonlogs
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