Summary
Jonathan Gilbert is a pragmatic, full-stack software engineer and sole proprietor based in Portland, Oregon, with 11 years of professional experience and a lifelong coding habit dating back to 1982. He specializes in iOS development (Swift/Objective-C) but brings deep cross-platform expertise across PHP, Node.js, MongoDB, Unity/VR engines, and custom scripting languages. Jonathan has built end-to-end products—from Core Data-backed iOS apps and secure cryptography stacks to PHP cloud interfaces and RESTful services—while also designing user-facing documentation, patents, and bespoke developer tooling. He excels at shipping reliable, secure systems (HMAC, RSA/AES-256, signed web requests), debugging large codebases, and modernizing architectures for performance and testability. A pragmatic designer of data models and visual flowcharts, he balances usability for end users with clarity for fellow developers and has repeatedly delivered production software for retail and enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Radio Television and Film, Radio Television and Film at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature at Reed College
English, Greek, Latin