Jon Hickman
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolJon Hickman is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading teams that build human-in-the-loop AI/ML services, including Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth, Amazon A2I, and Mechanical Turk. He has moved from hands-on SDE roles into senior management at AWS and now leads ML-focused ads engineering at Meta, combining product-facing delivery with deep operational knowledge of labeling, fraud control, and marketplace payments. Known for reducing labeling costs through automation and for designing scalable human review workflows, he hires and mentors senior engineers and managers to ship production-grade AI tooling. Based in the greater Seattle area with a Computer Science degree from Ohio State, he blends large-cloud service design experience with a practical understanding of crowdsourcing economics and quality control.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lakota East High SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (26)
audience10
cms10
javascript10
web-application10
ghost10
jamstack10
headless-cms10
ember10
journalism10
nodejs10
css-grid7
bower6
reservation-system5
responsive5
newsletter5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonhickman/gctools
Dec 2022 - Jun 2026
Command line utilities for working with Ghost content
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
ghostcommand-line-utilities
jonhickman/talks
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
Talk proposals for the OverEngineered conference
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
proposals
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