Jonathan Lam
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Lam is a Lead Software Engineer based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience building and shipping web applications across startups and enterprise teams. He combines a Systems Engineering foundation with hands-on full‑stack practice developed through roles from apprentice web developer to engineering manager, now leading engineering work at Capital One. Jonathan has a track record of daily deployment discipline and practical problem solving—examples include patching a Ruby gem to generate valid T-SQL and enhancing internal CMDB reporting for senior stakeholders. He’s comfortable bridging product and technical execution, having moved between IC and manager roles at Feedback Loop and Compass. Jonathan’s background in bioengineering and immersive web development training gives him a cross-disciplinary perspective that informs pragmatic, data-driven engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Chinese
Stackoverflow
223reputation
13kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (35)
nodejs9
react9
html8
bash8
javascript8
ruby7
css7
rails7
mvc7
lts7
crosstab7
pivot-chart7
freetds7
activerecord7
shell7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jdlam/Happening.now
Sep 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 5 months
jdlam/qr-foundry-app
Feb 2026 - May 2026
Contributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 29 PRs in 3 months
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