Jon Portella
Software Engineer at Pinterest
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJon Portella is a software engineer with eight years of experience building consumer-facing web and mobile experiences, currently driving Shopping Experience features at Pinterest for an audience of ~500M monthly users. He’s a full-stack engineer with a front-end focus (React, Redux, Jest, Cypress) who also brings iOS and backend Python/Flask experience, and has served as a tech lead and cross-functional mentor. Prior roles include leading engineering efforts at Curelator—shipping SPA dashboards, internationalized sites, and transactional systems—and teaching advanced software engineering at Codeworks. Jon combines a background in audiovisual production and communications with formal software training (Codeworks, Harvard CS coursework), which informs pragmatic, user-centered delivery. He writes about developer productivity and maintains an up-to-date timeline of his work at jonportella.com/timeline. His GitHub motto—"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."—hints at a thoughtful, answer-driven approach to engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at CodeworksComputer Science, Computer Science at Harvard UniversityCommunications, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians, Communications, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians at Universitat de Barcelona
Spanish, English, Catalan
Stackoverflow
1,206reputation
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10answers
0questions
routes
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Github Skills (85)
pagination10
filtering10
rich-text10
sorting10
requirejs10
grid10
editor9
javascript9
browser9
solidjs9
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datatable9
react-table9
routes9
datagrid9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jportella93/hack-travel-2019
Mar 2019 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
jportella93/vizviz
May 2020 - Dec 2025
Create trippy visualisations using parametric functions and p5.js
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 8 months
p5jsvisualizations
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