Jonathan Baxter
Senior Software Engineer II at DigitalOcean
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Baxter is a Senior Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems, currently advancing platform capabilities at DigitalOcean. He combines hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Angular, Kubernetes and a broad set of GCP technologies to deliver scalable backend services and responsive front-end experiences. Previously a team lead at Vendasta, he has a track record of guiding small teams from design through production while keeping operational reliability front of mind. Based in Saskatoon, he pairs a Computer Science degree with a chemistry minor, reflecting a practical, analytical approach to problem solving. Jonathan’s background in both supervision and grassroots community roles suggests strong communication and mentorship skills beyond pure engineering. He maintains a public GitHub presence and prefers pragmatic, cloud-first architectures that simplify deployment and observability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Chemistry, Minor, Chemistry at University of Saskatchewan
English
Github Skills (29)
scraper10
crawling10
spider10
golang10
crawler10
go9
controller6
nlp5
normalizing5
record-linkage5
webhooks5
address-parser5
machine-learning4
geo4
natural-language-processing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
vendasta/admission-control
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
A helpful micro-framework for writing Kubernetes Admission Controllers 🔎🎟
Contributions:1 review, 25 commits, 8 PRs in 9 days
micro-frameworkadmission-controllerscontrollersframeworkhelpful
jbaxter-va/colly
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Elegant Scraper and Crawler Framework for Golang
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
golangspidercrawler-frameworkcrawlingcrawler
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