Summary
Jon Slenk is a Senior Software Developer with 11+ years of professional experience and a career stretching back to early roles at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon–trained foundations. He has shipped cross-platform mobile and client software (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Web) and contributed to large-scale products at Apple (Siri), Woven Planet, and multiple startups, now focusing on sustainable, circular-economy solutions at Brambles. Comfortable both coding and leading, he has held staff and managerial roles that blend hands-on engineering with project and people management. Technically versatile across TypeScript, Java, Objective-C, C++, Haxe and game/engine work (Unreal), he’s equally critical about usability as he is about robust architecture. Known for a wry, contrarian outlook on UI and UX, he brings candid product feedback that improves end-user outcomes. Based in San Jose, he pairs deep systems experience with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Math / Computer Science, B.S. Math / Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University