Summary
Jonah Stewart is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with six years of experience building distributed systems and microservice architectures using JavaScript (ES6), Node/Express, and Kafka. He has driven production-ready features and real-time streaming solutions—instrumenting Kafka clusters, WebSocket pipelines, and performant React front-ends—to support observability and high-throughput workloads. Jonah’s background includes work at Freshworks, FireHydrant, and Truepill, and he’s presented on containerization and deployment at scale, reflecting both hands-on delivery and operational thinking. Early career roles in sports sales and partnerships contribute to his product sensibility and cross-functional collaboration skills. He also authors open-source utilities that simulate Kafka ecosystems and large-data streams, demonstrating a knack for engineering realistic testbeds and tooling that bridge dev and operations.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Codesmith
Bachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at University of Alabama at Birmingham
Master's degree Sports Business Management & Business Administration, Master's degree Sports Business Management & Business Administration at UCF College of Business