Summary
Jonathan Koh is a Senior Backend Developer with 8 years of experience building event-driven, high-throughput systems and resilient read/write architectures on AWS. He has a proven record of cutting latency (P95 from 10s to 2s) via microservice migrations, executing zero-downtime provider migrations for financial infrastructure, and architecting real-time payout systems that increased card usage. Comfortable across TypeScript/Node.js, PostgreSQL/MongoDB, Kubernetes/EKS and Terraform, he focuses on reliability and operational automation to eliminate manual toil. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he thrives in high-growth environments where he designs scalable data pipelines and leads complex infrastructure migrations. A former dental-hygiene student turned engineer, he brings an unusual blend of meticulous process orientation and pragmatic systems thinking to platform reliability challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Dental Hygiene/Hygienist, Bachelor's degree, Dental Hygiene/Hygienist at West Coast University
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Auburn University