Summary
Jonathan Kidd is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance web applications across React, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, and FastAPI. He thrives in collaborative, cross-functional teams and has repeatedly moved projects from legacy Rails to modern React frontends and production-grade Python backends. At Uplight he shipped a greenfield registration app ahead of schedule, redesigned complex Highcharts integrations to improve maintainability, and expanded CI/CD and Terraform workflows. Comfortable with TDD, Storybook, Docker and cloud tooling, he pairs hands-on implementation with clear documentation and stakeholder communication. With a background spanning higher education, government, and IT security, he brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach and a stated drive to use engineering to leave the world better than he found it.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Denver - Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs
Back-End Engineering, Back-End Engineering at Turing School of Software & Design
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Political Science and Government at Gustavus Adolphus College
Master of Arts (M.A.) Global Finance Trade and Economic Integration, Master of Arts (M.A.) Global Finance Trade and Economic Integration at University of Denver - Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Ukrainian