Jon Bernard
Founding Engineer at AlignAI
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Bernard is a seasoned founding engineer with 18 years of experience building and scaling front-end and full-stack products across healthcare, e-commerce, and media. He combines hands-on delivery—shipping UI, backend APIs, CI/CD, and security features—with team building and technical strategy, having led early engineering efforts that supported YC backing and a $3.8M raise. At AlignAI he’s designing enterprise AI governance tooling and visual workflow diagramming while implementing SSO/SAML and generative AI features, demonstrating a focus on compliance-first, user-centric systems. His background includes rapid prototyping of clinical workflow tools at Olive and revenue-driving e-commerce checkout innovations at Victoria’s Secret, showing a rare mix of product intuition and measurable business impact. A pragmatic mentor and process builder, he’s known for turning ambiguous problems into scalable architectures and repeatable engineering practices. Outside work he’s a novice houseplant curator, hinting at a patient, detail-oriented approach to growth and care.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Communication, B.A. Communication at Bethany College
English
Github Skills (142)
rdma10
fuse10
blob-storage10
bash10
dotfile10
vim10
lua10
backblaze10
gossip10
glusterfs10
multiple-machines10
openebs10
persistent-storage10
api10
shell10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jbernard/dotfiles
Apr 2011 - Mar 2019
Dotfile management made easy
Contributions:361 commits, 7 PRs, 92 pushes in 8 years
dotfile-managementvimmultiple-machinesbashdotfiles
jbernard/vimcasts
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:141 commits in 5 days
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