Summary
Jonathan Chew is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building global payments systems for companies like Airbnb, Braintree, and Marqeta. He transitioned from a finance career at J.P. Morgan into software to marry creativity with technical problem solving, bringing a rare blend of financial domain expertise and production-grade engineering. At Airbnb he helps operate a distributed payments platform supporting transactions in over 200 countries, and earlier work focused on test-driven Java and Rails on core payments stacks. He enjoys learning daily and finding simple, efficient solutions to complex problems, often applying product-minded thinking from his banking background to improve reliability and scalability. Quietly ambitious, he leverages deep payments knowledge to bridge business requirements and robust technical implementations.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles