Summary
Jonathan Porter is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building web applications, backend services, and database-driven systems from Colorado Springs. He designs and implements full-featured products—currently owning software and database design, code optimization, and maintenance for mission-critical tools like FireLight and SkyWatch, an Azure-based uptime monitor he architected and manages. Comfortable across C#, MVC4, React, WebAPI and legacy C/C++, his career includes building synchronization and monitoring services, custom provisioning tools, and data import pipelines sold to clients. A lifelong tinkerer who built his first PC at nine, he also contributes to open-source projects and has written high-performance components such as a 2D physics engine and ADO.NET wrappers, showing a knack for deep technical problem solving beyond the typical enterprise stack.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs