Jonathan Booth
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm, Inc.
Urbana-Champaign Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Booth is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale Linux systems and data pipelines, currently reducing incident load and improving performance at Affirm. He combines deep systems administration and distributed-systems experience from running an 800-node university supercomputer with production engineering at Yahoo, where he helped design a worldwide log collection system handling billions of events. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Python, Java, Ruby, Spark, Kubernetes, Terraform), he moves between feature work and infrastructure, often finding pragmatic optimizations that buy teams time for larger migrations. At startups and mid-size companies he has worn many hats—shipping frontend/backend features early, then shifting to devops and platform ownership as needs evolved. Known for clean code, automation, and measurable operational impact, he thrives on turning noisy, pager-heavy services into predictable, daylight-safe systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
English
Github Skills (62)
filesystem9
dataclasses9
toml9
python-dataclasses9
binding8
yaml8
serialization8
json8
type-annotations7
python7
sonos6
orm6
pulseaudio6
freedesktop6
binary-format6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
svirpridon/pyrsnapshot
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 11 months
re-implementationpushsshcapabilityrsnapshot
svirpridon/plasmatrim
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 4 months
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