Jon Mccord
Owner at Stealth Startup
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Mccord is a technology leader and entrepreneur with nine years of software engineering and product leadership experience. As co-founder and CTO of Threads from 2017 to 2024, he helped shape a major social platform, and since 2024 he has been building and leading a stealth startup as Owner in Bellevue, Washington. His earlier tenure at Facebook involved prototyping, launching new features, and building useful frameworks, APIs, and tools, grounding him in scalable, developer-focused product engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington with a 3.86 GPA, and his career includes internships at Facebook and EverSpeech that kickstarted his practical, hands-on engineering path. Jon blends hands-on coding with strategic product leadership, bridging execution from early-stage work to CTO-level architecture and business impact. Based in the Bellevue area, he is positioned to drive technically ambitious startups from concept to scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
3.86, 3.86 at University of Washington
Github Skills (51)
editors10
contenteditable10
richtext10
textarea10
draft-js10
wysiwyg10
rich-text-editor10
text-editors10
text-editor9
javascript9
react9
mentions9
batch8
dataloader8
eslint8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ThreadsHQ/draft-js-markdown-shortcuts-plugin
Nov 2017 - Jun 2018
A DraftJS plugin for supporting Markdown syntax shortcuts
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 months
draftjsdraftjs-pluginshortcutsmarkdownsupporting
ThreadsHQ/draft-js
May 2018 - Jul 2018
A React framework for building text editors.
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
text-editorsreactjavascriptreact-frameworktext-editor
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