Summary
Jon Svede is a Principal Architect with over two decades of experience designing cloud-native middleware, distributed orchestration, and API ecosystems that operate at hundreds of millions of requests per day. He currently leads architecture for Spectrum Connectivity Platform Services, unifying multiple vendor-managed networking and WiFi systems behind scalable, event-driven APIs on AWS, Kubernetes, and Kafka. Jon excels at creating stable platform abstractions that hide implementation complexity while prioritizing operability, resiliency, and pragmatic trade-offs across product, operations, and vendor teams. His career blends deep hands-on engineering—from Java-based CMS and enterprise middleware to modern cloud platforms—with leadership roles that have spanned team direction, architecture governance, and cross-organizational alignment. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he’s known for championing early inclusion of operations in design and for driving platform modernization that balances technical goals with long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer