Summary
Jon Vogel is a business-minded engineering leader with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Vice President of Business Solutions and Innovation at NomadGo, where he has driven paid POCs and SaaS contracts by aligning product, customers, and executive strategy. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—iOS, Node.js REST APIs, AWS infrastructure and serverless architectures—with computer vision and edge ML deployments to deliver scalable, cost-efficient solutions. Jon has a track record of shepherding startups through pivots and funding milestones, including contributing to a $2.7M seed raise and enabling million-concurrent live queries for under $5k/month. His background as a pilot and former Boeing analyst underscores disciplined risk management, regulatory compliance, and operational rigor applied to software delivery. Trained in business finance and formal coding programs, he excels at translating technical trade-offs into business outcomes while remaining an active individual contributor on critical product paths. An unexpected strength: he pairs aviation-grade safety culture with cloud-native engineering to build resilient, customer-focused systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Cascadia College
Business administration finance concentration, Business administration finance concentration at University of Washington Bothell School of Business
Graduated 2015, Graduated 2015 at Code Fellows