JD Conley
Head Of Engineering at AfterHour
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorJD Conley is a product-first engineer and serial founder with 25+ years of cross-industry technical experience and 12 years in senior IC and leadership roles, currently co-founding a software agency while advising VC deals as a venture partner. He specializes in 0→1 consumer products, real-time device↔cloud platforms, APIs for developers, and scalable shared services, and prefers shipping product outcomes over engineering for engineering’s sake. JD has multiple VC-backed exits (including startups acquired by Playdom/Disney and Middleby) and led engineering for YC alumni RealCrowd, Brava, and the AI-driven consumer finance app AfterHour. A hands-on full-stack developer who leverages AI dev agents and automation to dramatically increase output, he routinely balances technical trade-offs with business impact. His career breadth—from boat manufacturing and newspaper ad systems to games, IoT ovens, and fintech—gives him a rare ability to translate domain complexity into pragmatic, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
2,926reputation
590kreached
22answers
6questions
overloading
top-1%
Github Skills (175)
fluentd10
encryption10
crypto10
overloading10
typescript10
nodejs10
hashing-algorithm10
wrapper10
plaid10
logging10
scrypt9
javascript9
polygonio9
api9
hash9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jdconley/pwhaas
Mar 2017 - Jul 2020
Make your users' passwords 1,000x harder to crack
Contributions:4 commits, 14 pushes in 3 years 3 months
passwordspassword-generatorsecuritycrackpassword
jdconley/pwhaas-js
Oct 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 18 pushes, 2 tags in 3 years 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.