Jonathan Palgon
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Indeed.com
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Palgon is a Senior Software Engineering Manager in Austin with 20+ years of hands-on experience and a decade of leadership driving reliable, high-performance systems from firmware to cloud-native microservices. He combines deep C/C++ and embedded-systems roots with modern Node.js, Java, Scala and container-based architectures, having led performance and stability improvements (including 1000% performance wins) on enterprise API gateways and network appliances. At Indeed and prior companies he has stabilized teams after attrition, improved sprint delivery metrics, and translated product strategy into execution while acting as scrum master and technical coach. An active contributor to IBM’s Microgateway project, he focuses on readable, robust backend code and pragmatic debugging that reduces operational pain. Known for bridging customer-facing technical discussions with engineering execution, he brings a systems-level perspective and a track record of turning complex requirements into production-grade solutions.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) with Honors, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
javascript10
nodejs10
code-readability9
apidoc9
api9
rest-api8
debugging8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
strongloop/microgateway
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
IBM API Connect Microgateway framework, built on Node.js & Nginx
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:306 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan made several enhancements to the preflow lookup logic, focused on improving its readability, robustness, and efficiency. Contributions include adding comments for clarity, standardizing code formatting, removing unnecessary asynchronous operations, and incorporating methods to improve the overall API. The user's changes also included the addition of debugging messages and correcting error propagation.
apiconnectmicrogatewaynginxnodejsapi-management
palgon/manager
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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