Jonathan Azoff
Co-Founder & General Partner at Sweet Farm
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Azoff is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with nearly two decades of experience building venture-backed startups and leading engineering teams across social, gaming, real estate, fitness, logistics, and fintech. As Co-Founder & General Partner at SNØCAP and former senior manager at Carta, he’s been the primary architect behind companies that raised meaningful capital (Omni) and achieved exits to Zillow and Disney. He combines hands-on backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to prominent open-source projects like zeromq and Zeek around security, authentication, and performance—with strategic operator chops in product, fundraising, and climate impact. Based in Seattle, he also invests time and leadership in climate and animal welfare causes, founding the 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub in the city and serving as Board President of Sweet Farm. Known for bringing levity to serious work, he pairs uncompromising storytelling instincts with a practical habit of breaking things to learn how they work.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Santa Clara UniversityHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Agoura High School
French, Hebrew, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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selenium-webdriver
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automated-tests
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webdriver
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Github Skills (29)
dependency-management10
formula10
zeromq10
package-management10
peer-to-peer10
it-security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
zeek10
network-monitoring10
c1110
security10
c1710
homebrew10
formulas10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
zeek/zeek
Dec 2013 - May 2020
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 54 commits, 23 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed to the Zeek network analysis framework by fixing bugs, improving performance, and enhancing security. Their work involved modifying core scripts to address issues with SSL certificate caching, notice suppression, and SQL injection detection. They also improved the code base by including file information in notices and optimizing for loop performance.
dfirnsmsecurityanalysisnetworking
Homebrew/legacy-homebrew
Nov 2013 - Jun 2015
💀 The former home of Homebrew/homebrew (deprecated)
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Bro package management within Homebrew. Their work included updating formula files to reflect new releases of Bro, modifying dependencies, and addressing related issues. They updated Bro's formula to reflect version changes, managed dependencies like geoip, and removed obsolete dependencies. The user also addressed related issues in the Bro package for Homebrew users.
macoshomebrew
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