Summary
Jonas Fonseca is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer based in Montreal with 23 years of hands-on experience building production-grade AI platforms and backend systems. He has advanced ServiceNow’s core ML services through roles from Staff to Principal, specializing in ML platform infrastructure, CI/CD, release management and deployment. A longtime open-source contributor, Jonas has improved low-level language tooling and developer-facing libraries—contributions include fixes and enhancements to Scala.js, Scala Native, Circe and the popular text-mode git UI tig—showing comfort across language runtimes and developer tooling. His background spans distributed systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GPU cluster tooling from his work at Element AI, plus deep experience in Scala-based data and backend engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge operational rigor with pragmatic engineering: he not only ships features but refactors build and release processes to scale teams. Outside the obvious, his track record shows a knack for fixing subtle, low-level bugs (e.g., JVM/stdlib interop and string handling) that materially improve platform robustness.
24 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
English, Danish, French