Summary
Jonathan Strickland is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams. He has deep hands-on expertise in authorization, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation—having centralized auth logic at Mercury, extended the Polar language and tooling at Oso, and built ephemeral environments and Terraform modules at American Eagle. Comfortable shipping in languages from Rust and Haskell to Ruby and Python, he blends systems-level rigor with product-minded pragmatism and regular on-call ownership. Curious and collaborative by nature, Jonathan frequently documents onboarding pain points and drives better developer workflows. Now based in Pittsburgh and currently at Filament, he brings a hacker’s appetite for learning and practical innovations that reduce operational friction.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer