Jon S
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJon S is a seasoned software development manager with 13 years of professional experience leading teams at AWS and Oracle and a long history of hands-on engineering dating back to co-founding ThinkGeek. Based in Seattle, he blends product-focused leadership with deep operational experience in scalable web and cloud systems, having progressed from senior systems developer roles to directing engineering organizations. He has practical roots in both startup and enterprise cultures, which helps him balance rapid iteration with production reliability. An active contributor to open-source documentation, Jon has improved clarity and usability in high-profile projects like Apache Traffic Server, showing attention to developer experience and technical communication. Colleagues would note his ability to translate complex system behavior into clear guidance and maintainable docs—an often-underappreciated skill that accelerates team onboarding and reduces operational friction.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
rs10
restructuredtext10
documentation10
sphinx9
caching6
proxy6
object-cache6
memory-cache6
web-cache6
disk-cache6
http5
cdn4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Oct 2014 - Oct 2016
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:51 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions primarily involve documentation updates within the `apache/trafficserver` repository. These updates encompass editorial revisions, improvements to grammar and spelling, and restructuring of documentation sections. The commits show substantial reordering of examples and refinement of existing content, focusing on clarity and style. The file modifications are focused on enhancing the quality and usability of the documentation.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
jsime/robobot
Sep 2012 - Jul 2017
Contributions:587 commits, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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