Jon Mcalpine
Founder Independent Software Engineer at McAlpine Automation Solutions
Vista, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Mcalpine is a full-stack software engineer with nine years of experience building production web apps and cryptographically secure open-source tooling, particularly in TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Rust. He has shipped high-impact features—driving a 25% DAU uplift through dynamic real estate reports and leading a zero-downtime rebrand and monetization rollout—while modernizing legacy systems and adopting TypeScript and GraphQL to improve reliability and performance. Beyond product work, Jon builds research-grade crypto tooling (a pure-Rust, no_std V-PACK engine for auditing Bitcoin Layer 2 funds) and prototypes trustless Layer 2 primitives like Taproot-enabled atomic swaps, reflecting a rare blend of frontend product craftsmanship and low-level cryptographic engineering. He mentors engineers, contributes to widely used projects in the Lightning ecosystem and Cashu, and brings a background in international education and economics that informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to complex systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics with an International Emphasis, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Economics with an International Emphasis at University of Colorado Boulder
English, Spanish
Github Skills (16)
vue-application7
jekyll5
bitcoin-wallet5
bitcoin5
javascript4
typescript4
go4
asynchronous4
btcpayserver4
state-management3
github-pages2
vue2
photo1
chrome1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jgmcalpine/sats-the-way
May 2025 - May 2025
Contributions:55 pushes in 13 days
jgmcalpine/3D-snake
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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