Jon Tobey
Consultant at Adaptive
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Tobey is a seasoned UX and product design consultant with nearly three decades of experience crafting user-centered interfaces for Financial Services, Healthcare, and Consumer/Retail clients. He blends hands-on research, interaction design, and iterative prototyping with pragmatic process choices to simplify complex transactional systems and mobile/web experiences. A proven leader, Jon has built and scaled global UX teams, led experience strategy at firms like PwC and Lab49, and routinely presents to C-suite stakeholders to secure buy-in and funding. He pairs strategic thinking with executional muscle—developing design systems, running primary user research, and mentoring distributed teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. Alongside his design career, he has practical back-end coding experience, contributing to open-source blockchain tooling such as the bitcoin-abe block browser. Based in the New York metro area, Jon combines deep industry domain knowledge with a knack for translating complex requirements into elegant, usable products.
29 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Philosophy, BA Philosophy at New York UniversityUrban School of San Francisco
Github Skills (12)
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
python10
blockchain10
cryptography9
sql9
database-design9
data-storage9
data-structures8
data-structure8
namecoin8
multisig8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin-abe/bitcoin-abe
May 2013 - Apr 2015
Abe: block browser for Bitcoin and similar currencies
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:212 commits, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Bitcoin Abe block browser. They made several changes to the `DataStore.py` file, which suggests interaction with the database and back-end data handling. Their work included refactoring code, adding new methods for chain management, and implementing support for features such as per-chain decimal placement and the inclusion of NovaCoin-related RPC loading. Further changes involved modifications to the `Chain.py` and `abe.py` files, suggesting involvement across different modules and functionalities of the system.
bitcoin
rurban/c-dynalib
Oct 1997 - Feb 2000
Contributions:5 commits in 2 years 4 months
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