Summary
Jonathan Cornwell is a senior software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-volume, user-facing web applications and trusted internal tools across startups and scale-ups, currently working on Trust & Safety at Airbnb. He brings deep front-end expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript—React, Next.js, Redux and modern hooks patterns—alongside experience architecting test suites, internationalization, and geospatial mapping features. Jonathan has a proven track record leading cross-team initiatives and shipping end-to-end products, from requirements gathering and UX iteration to middleware and API coordination. Comfortable in legacy and modern stacks, his background spans everything from C++/OpenGL geospatial work to production React ecosystems, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems intuition and product-driven frontend craftsmanship. Based in California, he is particularly skilled at translating complex operational needs into polished tools that scale for both internal users and millions of customers.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Calhoun Community College
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Alabama in Huntsville