Jon Perl
CEO at QA Wolf - 80% Test Coverage in 4 Months
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Perl is a seasoned software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and products, currently serving as CEO of QA Wolf where he helps teams rapidly achieve and maintain high end-to-end test coverage. He previously led technology at Zipdrug and Dispatch, scaling platforms to hundreds of thousands of users and enabling massive growth through hands-on architecture, data, and product work. Jon blends product-focused engineering with ops and automation expertise—his open-source contributions include E2E test automation for Flipt and cross-platform build/release automation for ffmpeg-static. He is comfortable shipping across the stack (React, GraphQL, Node, Python, Postgres, AWS) and has repeatedly translated operational pain points into automated, reliable systems. Based in Seattle with a background from Purdue, he combines startup grit and exits with a clear mission: use software to free people from repetitive work. An uncommon strength is his mix of CEO-level strategy and persistent low-level involvement in CI/CD and test engineering.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Management Computer Science, Industrial Management Computer Science at Purdue University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
e2e-testing10
github-ci10
e2e-test10
bash10
ffmpeg10
cicd10
bash-shell10
automation10
script10
sh10
automations10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
linux9
typescript9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
eugeneware/ffmpeg-static
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
ffmpeg static binaries for Mac OSX and Linux and Windows
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 24 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on automating the build and release process for the ffmpeg-static project. Their contributions include modifying the build script to download and extract binaries for multiple platforms and architectures. They also addressed issues related to GitHub Actions, and refined the installation process to download and extract the ffmpeg binaries correctly. Furthermore, the user improved the installation script, including download progress and error handling.
mac-osxosxwindowsffmpeg-staticlinux
flipt-io/flipt
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Enterprise-ready, GitOps enabled, CloudNative feature management solution
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the project by writing end-to-end (E2E) tests using the qawolf framework. They created tests for creating flags and segments within the Flipt application, covering UI interactions. The user also added test attributes to the UI components and updated the qawolf configuration. Furthermore, they adapted the test setup to use yarn in the GitHub Actions workflow.
golangreactdevopsfeature-flaggrpc
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