Jonathan Kelley is a systems engineer and startup founder with eight years of experience building high-performance systems, distributed simulation tools, and edge compute devices. As founder and creator of Dioxus Labs—an open-source project with 16k GitHub stars that has been adopted by Airbus, ESA, Huawei and others—he turned a community-driven codebase into a VC-backed company after Y Combinator S23. His background spans Rust, WebAssembly, WireGuard, and large-scale agent-based modeling, with production experience at Cloudflare’s Zero Trust team and in hardware-integrated deployments for robotics and aerospace. Jonathan blends hands-on firmware and PCB design from his cofounder days with systems-level software engineering, having written over 600,000 lines of code used in enterprise settings. He has a track record of turning research and prototypes into funded products—from winning the Conrad Challenge to shipping enterprise tunnels and simulation platforms. Based in San Francisco, he combines academic rigor from Olin College with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit and community-led growth.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree Systems Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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