Jonathan Kirst
Co-Founder & CTO at Unbank.Ventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Kirst is a seasoned founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building fintech and consumer-facing platforms that reduce friction in major life events, most recently as Co-Founder & CTO of BridgeCare Finance addressing the financial stress of parenthood. He co-founded and led Roostify’s technical team to deliver an industry-leading, end-to-end mortgage origination platform that shortened closing times and improved loan conversion. His background blends product leadership at Salesforce/Data.com with hands-on engineering early in his career, giving him a knack for translating customer needs into scalable, integrated systems. Jonathan advises startups through Unbank.Ventures and serves as a technical advisor to SMBs, signaling a passion for mentoring founders as well as building products. He holds a multidisciplinary BA in Computer Science, Economics, and Chinese from Washington University and brings an operator’s mindset tempered by real-world exits and long-form product cycles. Less obvious: his career arc shows a consistent focus on data-driven automation and integrations that remove manual handoffs across complex workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Computer Science Economics Chinese, Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Computer Science Economics Chinese at Washington University in St. LouisHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Menlo School
English
Github Skills (49)
html8
ruby-wrapper7
ruby7
rails7
mvc7
activerecord7
ruby-on-rails6
two-factor-authentication6
cucumber6
session-store5
rails-generators5
authorization5
rest5
api5
dwolla5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
starfighterheavy/cucumber-persona
Oct 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 21 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
cucumber-bddtestingbddcucumber-testscucumber
starfighterheavy/edwards-voice
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:21 releases, 37 PRs, 71 pushes in 4 months
vuefront-endedwardvuejs
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