Jesse Youngblood is an engineering manager and seasoned full-stack architect with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems, from Cocoa apps for iOS/macOS to Linux server applications and microservices. He has founded and led multiple startups and product teams—designing search APIs for video analytics, PaaS for IoT at scale, and user-focused React frontends—while guiding teams through architecture, UX, and data scaling decisions. At SoWork he progressed from team lead to engineering manager, combining hands-on coding with people leadership and product ownership. His expertise spans relational and NoSQL data architecture, massive parallel data processing, and HIPAA-compliant systems, reflecting a rare mix of security-conscious engineering and pragmatic product delivery. Based in Boston and humorously self-described on GitHub as a “professional lemon zester,” he brings entrepreneurial curiosity and long-term operational experience to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
Koa middleware for creating APIs that implement hmac signatures
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 35 commits in 3 years 3 months
signaturessigncryptokoakoa-middleware
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