Jon Lesser
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Wing
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJon Lesser is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and architecting large-scale distributed systems, currently shaping drone delivery infrastructure at Wing. He brings deep hands-on expertise in C++ and Python paired with a background in web architectures, APIs, and cloud deployments dating back to early roles building high-performance community sites and research webapps. At Wing and Google/X he led engineering for Human-Drone Interaction and core Wing systems, translating moonshot research into production-grade services. His career blends product-facing UX and rigorous backend engineering—he’s led feature design, A/B testing, and performance-driven deployments as well as hiring and managing small teams. Based in Oakland, CA, Jon combines academic training in information science with practical experience across startups and large organizations, which helps him navigate both experimental projects and operational scale. An understated thread through his work is a knack for turning research prototypes into resilient, user-focused platforms.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MIMS, Information Science, MIMS, Information Science at University of California, BerkeleyBS, New Media Publishing, BS, New Media Publishing at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (18)
open-access9
pdf8
converter8
factory7
collections7
creative-commons7
css6
python6
html5
weasyprint5
dms5
documents3
ripple1
material-ui1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jonlesser/puzzlebuddy
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 days
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