Jonathan Hess
Developer Relations Engineer
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Hess is a developer-relations engineer at Google Cloud with a decade-plus track record of building internet-scale infrastructure and leading cross-functional engineering teams. He combines deep hands-on experience in languages like Java, C++, Python, Ruby, and PHP with program-level leadership, most recently running Pinterest’s Performance program across mobile, web, network, server, and AWS platforms. Jonathan has been both an individual contributor and a builder of teams, shipping major infrastructure pieces at Pinterest and architecting commerce and cloud systems at SAP. He contributes to high-impact open-source tooling—helping enhance the widely used Cloud SQL Proxy with security and usability features such as private-IP and quota-project flags. Based in Westminster, Colorado, he pairs an MBA and STEM background to translate technical constraints into business-impacting outcomes. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who keeps his keyboard skills sharp while scaling operations and developer experience.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Math, BS, Computer Science, Math at Principia CollegeMBA, Business Administration, MBA, Business Administration at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of Business
Github Skills (10)
cli10
command-line-interface10
google-cloud-platform10
go10
command-line10
gcp10
api-design9
cloud-infrastructure8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
A utility for connecting securely to your Cloud SQL instances
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:1 release, 166 reviews, 16 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Cloud SQL Proxy. Their work involved adding new features, such as the `--private-ip` flag and the `--quota-project` flag, which enhance the proxy's capabilities for connecting to private IP addresses and managing API quotas. Additionally, the user made improvements to the existing codebase by refactoring code and consolidating related functionalities. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the proxy's usability, security and maintainability.
instancescloud-sql-proxycloud-sqlgoogle-cloud-platformsql
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy-operator
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
A Kubernetes Operator to automatically configure secure connections to Cloud SQL
Contributions:266 reviews, 202 commits, 353 PRs in 7 months
securecloud-sql-proxycloud-sqlsqloperator
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