Jonathan Alter
Senior Software Engineer at Roshal Health
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Alter is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable mobile SDKs, libraries, and APIs for teams at Yahoo, Verizon Media, IBM, and Appcelerator. He combines hands-on cross-platform mobile development (iOS/Android) with a strong emphasis on documentation and automated testing, having built SDK parity tools and documentation generators used to surface API coverage for the Titanium SDK. Known for leading distributed teams across time zones, he has driven measurable improvements in delivery speed, product quality, and developer onboarding. Comfortable across JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, and Python, he pairs deep technical breadth with practical operational skills like Docker and CI automation. Based in San Francisco, he brings a customer-focused mindset and creative problem solving—off-the-clock he channels that same drive into building gear and extreme outdoor sports like ice climbing and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (7)
javascript10
documentation10
apidoc9
api9
html9
mobile-development7
cross-platform7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tidev/titanium-sdk
Jun 2011 - Apr 2015
🚀 Native iOS and Android Apps with JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:424 commits, 58 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the documentation generation process for the Titanium SDK. They developed a parity generator for API documentation, creating HTML files to compare and display API coverage across different platforms. They added statistics to the parity generator and included options to show/hide pseudotypes and members. Their work focused on ensuring the documentation accurately reflected the SDK's functionality and platform support.
nativeandroid-appsmobile-developmentreact-nativejavascript
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