JonathanĀ Staples
Engineering Manager - Cloud at Bold Penguin
South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Staples is an engineering manager focused on cloud and reliability with 11 years of experience building and scaling production systems across startups and mid-stage companies. He has progressed from hands-on roles in DevOps, ML, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure to leading cloud engineering at Bold Penguin, after shaping integrations and systems work at Brave and ThreatSwitch. Comfortable bridging product and ops, he excels at turning data and architecture problems into reliable, secure services while mentoring teams through rapid change. His background in biological sciences and early leadership in civic tech (founding volunteer projects and leading Code for Nashville) gives him a multidisciplinary lens for problem solving and stakeholder communication. Based in South Carolina, he brings a pragmatic, cross-functional approach that balances compliance, scalability, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.), Biological and Biomedical Sciences at University of South Carolina-ColumbiaMaster of Science (MS), Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science (MS), Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (123)
payment-gateway10
visualizations10
payment10
brave10
elasticsearch-client10
publisher10
elastic10
kibana10
cli9
shell9
python9
python-client9
elasticsearch9
observability9
checker9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
neolytics/shellrc
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
OAuthBringer/brave-rails
Dec 2021 - Sep 2024
Rails 7 w/ basic proxy for Swapi API and minimal caching implementation.
Contributions:8 PRs, 14 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 8 months
apiproxyrailsswapicaching
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