Summary
Jonathan Linowes is an entrepreneurial software engineer, applications designer, and product manager with over two decades of hands-on experience building VR/AR experiences, full-stack web applications, and cloud-backed systems. He blends deep technical breadth—from Unity3D/C# and React/Node to Ruby on Rails, Neo4j, and serverless AWS—with a proven track record of leading small, remote, and cross-functional teams through startups, VC-funded ventures, acquisitions, and self-funded projects. An award-winning author and Unity Certified Expert Instructor, he runs XR product development at Parkerhill and builds novel experiential hardware as owner of Freedom Dawg Games. He also architects civic-scale systems like the OppScore politician-rating platform and teaches cohorts and workshops, demonstrating a rare mix of production engineering, pedagogy, and public-facing scholarship. Based on an MIT Media Lab MS and a career stretching back to early 3D graphics work, he combines deep systems thinking with a practical focus on immersive education and graph-driven data.
17 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS Media Technology Media Lab, MS Media Technology Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BA Computer Graphics and Film, BA Computer Graphics and Film at Syracuse University