Jesse Youngblood
Engineering Manager at SoWork
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse 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
Github Skills (90)
env10
mariadb-database10
windows10
uimenu10
uiaction10
command-line-tool10
node-library10
linux10
dotenv10
pm210
editor10
powershell10
defaults10
electron10
typescript10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jessety/pm2-installer
Aug 2019 - Dec 2022
Install PM2 offline as a service on Windows or Linux. Mostly designed for Windows.
Contributions:4 releases, 14 reviews, 182 commits in 3 years 4 months
linuxpm2windowsofflineinstaller
jessety/simple-hmac-auth-express
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Express middleware for creating APIs that implement hmac signatures
Contributions:1 release, 30 commits, 17 pushes in 3 years 1 month
hmacmiddlewareapi-securityexpressexpress-middleware
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