Jonathan Colt
Principal Engineer at Shopify
United States
Summary
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SeniorJonathan Colt is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering highly available, distributed systems across startups and large-scale platforms. He has held senior technical and architect roles at Shopify, Vantage Discovery, thredUP, and Jive Software, blending systems design, machine learning integration, and pragmatic implementation. Known for visualizing complex architectures and turning ideas into production realities, he repeatedly drives resilient, scalable solutions in both product and R&D contexts. His background includes founding and inventing at small companies, giving him an operator’s instincts alongside deep engineering craft. Based in the United States, he brings a rare mix of long-term hands-on coding, architecture leadership, and product-minded problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
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system-monitoring5
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jivesoftware/aquarium
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:108 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
jivesoftware/leaps-and-bounds
Nov 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:685 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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