Jonathan Backer
Senior Architect, Mobile Development at Ticketmaster
Burbank, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Backer is a Senior Architect in mobile development with over a decade of experience designing and shipping high-profile iOS and cross-platform products for Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and Disney. He leads architecture and technical management efforts, building Swift-based core foundations, ensuring app security and PCI compliance, and coordinating multi-team engineering workstreams. His background spans mobile game and app porting, embedded C/C++ systems, and server-side design—he was a co-inventor on Disney AppMATes and contributed frameworks for top-ranked apps like Where's My Water. Known for turning legacy and keypad-driven games into modern touch experiences, he also has hands-on experience setting up offshore porting teams and implementing copy-protection and inventory systems. Based in Burbank, CA, he combines deep low-level programming skills with product-focused leadership across large consumer e-commerce and entertainment platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies at Fresno City CollegeBachelor's of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science at California State University, Fresno
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ticketmaster/iOS-TicketmasterSDK
Jun 2023 - Apr 2026
iOS implementation of Ticketmaster SDK (aka Ignite)
Contributions:50 releases, 89 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 9 months
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ticketmaster/iOS-PSDK-Pod
Oct 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:29 releases, 34 commits, 40 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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