Jonathan Poland
Director Of Engineering at OBM, Inc.
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Poland is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over 15 years building security and network infrastructure software, scaling teams, and shipping products from prototype to market dominance. As a co‑founder of Arbor Networks he helped grow the company from a handful of engineers to 200+ employees, turning $33M in funding into an 80% market share and a successful exit, and later led cross‑border engineering teams and high‑margin product launches. He blends hands‑on full‑stack development with disciplined lifecycle and process design, improving performance, uptime, and delivery cadence across platforms. More recently he has balanced consulting and founding IoT efforts with senior management roles, enjoying selective, high‑impact projects that "beguile and intrigue" him while prioritizing family time. Known for mentoring engineers into leadership and for pragmatic automation that cut costs and support overhead dramatically, he now directs engineering at OBM after managing platform teams at Blumira.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSE (Cum Laude) Computer Engineering, BSE (Cum Laude) Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (70)
alpine-linux9
kubernetes-dashboard8
docker-image8
wake-on-lan7
prometheus-alertmanager7
aircrack-ng7
docker7
esp82667
alerts7
esp326
ssh6
pagerduty6
linux6
python6
async6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
polandj/alpine-ssh
Feb 2016 - Mar 2021
Alpine Linux Docker Image with SSH support
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 5 years 2 months
docker-imagesshlinuxalpine-linuxdocker
polandj/debian-ssh
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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