Jon Barson
Software Engineer at tr
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Barson is a versatile software engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading web application teams, combining hands-on full‑stack development with program management and customer advocacy. He has driven migrations, standardized engineering practices, and shipped features across Ruby on Rails and modern JavaScript stacks while teaching and mentoring hundreds of new developers. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise settings, Jon has led front‑end teams, implemented testing and linting standards, and delivered measurable process improvements that accelerated integrations and reduced delivery time. He pairs technical depth—from server configuration and networks to analytics and prototyping—with a customer‑centric mindset honed in account-facing roles, and often translates business needs into pragmatic engineering solutions. An educator and mentor at heart, he repeatedly turns inherited codebases into maintainable products and enjoys rapid iteration to validate ideas.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
General Science, General Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (22)
visual-studio-code10
git10
github10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
editor10
mercurial8
mozilla8
firefox8
astra8
starmap7
gecko7
browser7
mozilla-firefox7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jbarson/3Dmap
Aug 2019 - May 2021
This is my starmap created for Ken Burnside @ Ad Astra games
Contributions:6 reviews, 10 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 9 months
gamegamesstarmapkenastra
jbarson/game-o-life
Oct 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:26 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 10 months
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