Jon Schwartz
Principal Software Development Engineer at NYC Pet Photographer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Schwartz is a Principal Software Development Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience transforming complex domains—payments, mortgage ops, and SaaS CRM—into reliable, well-architected backend systems. A former meteorologist, he brings a data-driven, analytical approach to system design and debugging, favoring solutions that can be verified rather than guessed. He’s led teams and mentored engineers while shipping mission-critical services at companies like LeafLink, Blue State Digital, and Zillow, with deep experience in money movement and financial systems. Outside of core engineering roles he wears entrepreneurial hats—serving as CTO and photo-assistant for a small business—reflecting a penchant for practical tooling and over-architecture when it helps scale operations.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Meteorology, BS Meteorology at Rutgers University
Github Skills (13)
skill7
dialogue-systems6
unity3d6
tabletop5
spinner5
member5
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java4
game-development4
conversations3
godot2
javascript2
framework71
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jonschwa/camp-schwartzelrod
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:150 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
jonschwa/jonco
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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