Jonathan Macdonald
Staff Software Engineer at PrizePicks
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Macdonald is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed systems and APIs, currently improving PrizePicks' platform from Little Rock, Arkansas. He has led re-platforming efforts and core RPC/Go services at Stitch Fix and architected Apptegy’s first distributed product using gRPC, RabbitMQ, Postgres, DynamoDB, and observability stacks like OpenTelemetry and Prometheus. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails and Go, he champions conventions and developer ergonomics—co-authoring an internal Ruby gRPC framework and automating API docs and CI workflows. Jonathan’s background in technical post-production filmmaking informs a meticulous, design-minded approach to engineering, and he pairs hands-on coding with hiring and onboarding experience having personally onboarded over half his team at Apptegy. Outside work he balances engineering with bike polo, music, movies, and family life.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Film/Video - Editing Concentration, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Film/Video - Editing Concentration at Columbia College ChicagoRails Web Development, Rails Web Development at BlocDigital Filmmaking, Digital Filmmaking at University of Central Arkansas
English
Github Skills (9)
neovim6
rspec6
vim6
ruby5
zsh5
linter5
rails4
turkish1
super-linter1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eiei0/made_assistant
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
An internal tool for facilitating wholesale orders
Contributions:30 PRs, 191 pushes, 42 branches in 1 year 1 month
internal-toolpythoninternalnetwork-automationwholesale
eiei0/eiei0.github.io
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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