Jon Defilla is a DevOps and platform engineer with eight years' experience designing secure, scalable cloud-native systems and automations across finance and telecommunications. He has led initiatives from building self-service portals and data-quality platforms to automating Splunk/Elastic onboarding and OpenShift deployments using Docker, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines. Comfortable across Python, Linux, networking, and full-stack backend work, Jon blends hands-on system administration with platform thinking to bridge development and operations. He brings international experience—deployed to Mexico City for Swiss development cooperation—and an entrepreneurial mindset honed through homelab projects and continuous exploration of emerging technologies.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc - CS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc - CS) Computer Science at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Master of Science in Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Science in Computer Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Exchange year in Germany, Exchange year in Germany at Marie Curie Schule – KGS Ronnenberg
Federal Matura Economics/Law and Computer Science, Federal Matura Economics/Law and Computer Science at Gymnase de Burier
French, german (c1, goethe certified), english (c1, toefl certified), Spanish
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