Summary
Jona Frank is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and architecting high-availability web and mobile platforms, now driving frontend and architecture strategy at Coinbase. He combines deep hands-on expertise in JavaScript/Node.js stacks with secondary proficiency in Java and Python, and has designed resilient systems using Redis, SQS/Kafka, CDNs, and diverse databases. Comfortable as an IC or people leader, he has led onboarding and cross-functional initiatives, mentored teams, and established high-velocity delivery pipelines across startups and large enterprises like PayPal and Chargebee. Jona is equally passionate about pixel-perfect frontend UX and backend orchestration, having shipped microservice and monolith solutions that scale elastically. Outside core work he contributes open source, experiments with DApps/Solidity, and aims to transition toward technical product and engineering leadership en route to a future CTO role.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Junior College (CBSE) Computer Science, Junior College (CBSE) Computer Science at St.John's English School and Junior College
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Hindi, Tamil, English