Summary
Jonathan Levin is a Chief Data Officer and high-agency data specialist with 13 years of hands-on experience designing, tuning and operating high-performance database systems across startups, enterprise and public sector. He has deep MySQL/MariaDB and Postgres expertise complemented by data engineering work on Redshift, Aurora and ETL pipelines, and a track record of performance tuning, capacity planning and production-ready data modelling. His career spans roles from MySQL developer to data architect and C-level data leadership, including senior work at TransferWise and long-running consultancy and SRE engagements. Jonathan is comfortable both shipping targeted backend optimizations (replacing inefficient ORMs, reducing CPU load dramatically) and leading data platform strategy, and he brings pragmatism from many fast migrations and disaster-recovery projects. Based in Horsham, UK, he blends technical depth with operational discipline and a knack for turning messy, data-intensive systems into reliable, performant platforms.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Brunel University of London
HND Computing, HND Computing at Barnet College
Course Chinese, Course Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University