Jonathan Simon
Sr. Product Marketing Engineer at Elastic
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Simon is a Sr. Product Marketing Engineer in Seattle with 13 years of experience translating cloud technologies into practical, start-to-finish developer guides and sample apps. He blends hands-on backend engineering across Java, Python, Go, Node, PHP, Ruby and .NET with a knack for documentary-style “how-to” content that accelerates adoption of Google Cloud services like Spanner, Cloud SQL and Memorystore. At Google he led code-sample automation and developer relations work that improved canonical cloud tutorials used by thousands, and now applies that storytelling-plus-technical craft at Elastic. His open-source footprints in the GoogleCloudPlatform and googleapis repos show deep, cross-language expertise in database patterns, batch DML, and migration of deprecated APIs—skills that make complex cloud concepts accessible in working code. Jonathan’s background in marketing and an MBA gives him a rare combination of product storytelling and engineering credibility, enabling developer-focused content that both educates and ships.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Marketing, Bachelor of Science - BS, Marketing at Butler UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (56)
transaction10
google-api10
google-cloud-platform10
transactional10
android-sample10
postgresql10
python10
testing10
net10
databases10
sample-size10
dotnet10
google-app-engine10
java10
spanner10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples
Oct 2015 - Aug 2022
.NET code samples used on https://cloud.google.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 400 commits, 295 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the .NET code samples for Google Cloud Platform. Their work involved implementing and updating code for various Cloud Vision functionalities, including label and text detection. The user added and modified test files to ensure the samples' functionality and addressed code linting issues. They also made updates to instantiation of the Main method, and file paths.
dotnetc-sharpcsharpgoogle-clouddotnet-core
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 17 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Spanner samples within the repository. Their work focused on adding new features and functionalities, including samples for batch queries, commit timestamps, and the implementation of change logs and struct parameter queries. The user also incorporated new datatypes and created a leaderboard sample demonstrating proficiency with Cloud Spanner's features. Furthermore, the user made enhancements to Firestore, adding sample data, and query examples.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
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