Jon West
DevOps Manager at EverDriven
Greater Colorado Springs Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon West is a DevOps manager and technology leader with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and operating secure, cloud-native infrastructure and developer pipelines. He has a track record of modernizing complex systems—reducing latency and costs dramatically—through automation with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and container platforms like AWS ECS Fargate. Jon blends software engineering and architecture skills (Node.js, Python, Go, TypeScript) to build scalable microservices, ETL pipelines, and geospatial analytics that improved user experience and operational efficiency across healthcare, media, and risk domains. He’s led cross-functional teams from technical lead to manager roles, driving measurable improvements in performance, observability, and release consistency. An active contributor to open-source front-end tooling, he improved touch-event handling and usability in the popular Leaflet.draw mapping plugin, showing attention to both developer and user experience. Based in the Colorado Springs area, Jon is known for pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering that turns complex requirements into reliable, auditable systems.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Digital Media Arts, Associates, Digital Media Arts at Northern Oklahoma College
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
leaflet10
touch-event10
user-interface9
css4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet.draw
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
Vector drawing and editing plugin for Leaflet
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 105 commits, 118 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Leaflet.draw library. Their work involved adding MS Touch detection and event handling for touch events, fixing indentation inconsistencies using tabs, and updating the library's JavaScript source files. They also addressed issues with the license and updated file locations in the documentation, indicating a focus on usability and library maintenance.
leafleteditingvectordrawing
ddproxy/Leaflet.draw
Jul 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 release, 42 PRs, 39 pushes in 9 months
leafleteditingvectordrawing
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