Jon Bauer
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Bauer is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-led engineering teams from Chicago. He has founded and led startups including GitView and a stealth company while serving as VP of Engineering at Obie and Head of Engineering at a Y Combinator-backed SaaS, demonstrating a mix of hands-on development and operational leadership. Jon’s background spans early roles at Groupon and Microsoft internships to co-founding Carbon Cash, giving him deep experience across consumer, fintech, and insurtech domains. He’s comfortable moving between founder-level strategy and shipping reliable engineering execution, and has a pattern of joining companies early to shape technical culture and rapid growth. A Michigan State Computer Science graduate, he brings entrepreneurial grit and product-focused engineering to every role.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (118)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PopularPays/jsonapi-matchers
Aug 2016 - Jun 2020
Helper Gem for testing JSON API formatted payloads
Contributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 10 months
apitestinggempayloadsjson-api
bauerjon/git2json
May 2018 - Nov 2020
Convert git logs to JSON for easy analysis
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
to-jsonjsonlogs
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