Summary
Jon Plaut is a senior software engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience building products from 0 to 1 and scaling them beyond, blending hands-on coding with team and process leadership. Language-agnostic and pragmatic, he ships with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Ruby, and has deep experience designing data models, CI/CD pipelines, and HIPAA-compliant cloud systems. He’s a proven startup operator—founding engineer at OHMS, engineering manager at Elation’s Orchestra One, and director-level experience growing teams and instituting security-first practices. Jon emphasizes speed without sacrificing quality, instituting testing, tech-debt cleanup, and scalable automation that let teams move fast reliably. A creative problem solver and technology generalist, he’s comfortable across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure work and has led integrations from Google Calendar to complex blockchain and healthcare platforms.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Spanish Sociology Digital Recording Technology, Bachelors Spanish Sociology Digital Recording Technology at Whittier College
Spanish