Summary
Jonathan Gnagy is a Staff Production Engineer specializing in database platforms with 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. He has led modernization and cloud adoption efforts at enterprise organizations like Shopify, Sherwin-Williams, and KeyBank, combining deep Linux, automation (Terraform, Puppet), containerization, and monitoring expertise to bring legacy systems into scalable, observable architectures. Known for pragmatic tooling—Ruby and Python scripts, internal admin apps, and CI-integrated containers—he balances day-to-day reliability with platform-level improvements and mentoring. Based in Yuma, Arizona, he has a track record of owning critical eCommerce and production services 24×7 and often serves as the technical escalation path for complex operational challenges. An understated strength is his ability to translate hosting and security constraints into repeatable deployment standards that accelerate teams while reducing risk.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Technology Management, Bachelor's Degree, Technology Management at Northern Arizona University
A.A.S., Computer Information Systems, A.A.S., Computer Information Systems at Arizona Western College
English, Spanish