Summary
Jon Pierce is a hands-on consulting software engineer and product leader with roughly two decades of experience helping startups and enterprises build and scale web and mobile products. Based in Cambridge, MA, he combines full-stack development (JS/TS, Node, React, Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Java) with architecture, growth, and UX instincts to move products from concept to production. He frequently acts as an early-stage technologist—co-founding communities like Betahouse and organizing developer events—while also embedding at larger firms such as Foundation Medicine and Moody’s Analytics. Jon’s background spans browser extensions to backend search and data systems (Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Redis) and includes growth engineering for marketplaces and healthcare outcomes software. Equally comfortable writing code, leading teams, or advising founders and investors, he brings rare cross-functional fluency and a history of shipping impactful, user-focused features. Outside client work he invests in and mentors startups, reflecting a long-standing commitment to community-building and early-stage ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Biochemistry, BS Biochemistry at Northeastern University
Software Engineering and IT, Software Engineering and IT at Harvard Extension School