Summary
Jeff Gonzalez is a seasoned software developer and technical trainer with roots in coding since the late 1980s and formal teaching experience dating to 1996. As owner of Hypertheory and a long-term contract instructor at Progressive Insurance, he designs and delivers custom corporate training while mentoring developers at all levels. His current work focuses on application development in Kubernetes with Apache Kafka, blending cloud-native patterns and event-driven architecture. Jeff has a practical consulting background from founding 138 Development, delivering courseware and projects across the U.S. and Europe, and brings a rare combination of deep hands-on engineering and pedagogy. Based in Lakewood, Ohio, he channels decades of experience into pragmatic, real-world solutions that accelerate teams’ ability to adopt modern distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer