Jon Sykes
Director Of Software Engineering at Finxact
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Sykes is a founder and seasoned software leader with two decades of hands-on engineering and eight years in senior architecture and management roles, currently building Weave Labs to connect enterprise systems with practical, auditable AI. He specializes in designing resilient integration platforms and microservice architectures, with deep proficiency in Go, C#, C++, and TypeScript and extensive AWS experience. Jon has led and scaled remote engineering teams focused on autonomy, clean architecture, and pragmatic decisions that avoid technology dogma. His career spans enterprise systems at Fanatics and Finxact and a history of founding product-focused tooling companies, reflecting a blend of operator and builder instincts. He writes regularly about engineering and AI and channels legacy enterprise modeling experience into making complex systems both understandable and reliable.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at A. Philip Randolph Academies of Technology
Github Skills (12)
structured-concurrency6
multithreading4
concurrency3
twine3
architecture2
load-balancing2
revit-api2
plug2
archimate2
load-balancer2
git1
cross-platform1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JonCSykes/tightrope
May 2019 - Jan 2020
A concurrency framework that allows for load balancing within a single process.
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 8 months
multithreadingconcurrencyload-balancingstructured-concurrencyload-balancer
JonCSykes/ElderBrainGames
May 2023 - Nov 2023
A pro version of minesweeper, with detailed stat tracking.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 months
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