Summary
Jon Young is a Senior Software Engineer based in Philadelphia with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and shipping early-stage product MVPs. He’s led technical efforts as a staff engineer at NZero—simplifying data integration pipelines with Python, Prefect, FastAPI and Postgres—and now focuses on product engineering at Yogi. As a founder and early engineer, he’s shipped full-stack solutions in Go, TypeScript, Next.js and Django, and has experience bootstrapping growth and operational tooling, including a no-code mini-ERP. Jon blends hands-on implementation with tech leadership across cloud-native stacks and developer tooling, and his background in philosophy hints at a thoughtful, systems-oriented approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
General Assembly
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at New York University
English, Spanish