Summary
Jon Mclaren is a Staff Developer Advocate at HubSpot with 11 years of hands-on web and HubSpot development experience, specializing in CMS, frontend work, and developer enablement. He began building marketing-driven sites and email templates on WordPress and HubSpot, then transitioned to advocating for and upskilling the developer community while working directly with product teams. Known for practical, people-first content that helps developers do their jobs better and grow their careers, he blends design sensibility from a graphic design background with deep implementation experience. Based in Milwaukee, he brings a mix of client-facing pragmatism and platform-level perspective, and still finds ways to make technical work joyful and community-focused.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Javascript JQuery HTML5, Javascript JQuery HTML5 at CodeAcademy
Henry Sibley High School
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at Rasmussen College
English