Summary
Jonathan Tamboer is a co-founder, full-stack engineer, designer, and educator with over 20 years of web experience and 13 years in formal industry roles. He has founded and led multiple studios and products—serving 50+ clients through Mosodofu Studio and Lemuel New Media and currently building United Young to connect millennials with church communities. As App Academy’s first NYC hire and Head Instructor he trained 400+ engineers, authored curriculum, managed teaching staff, and built student-tracking tools with thousands of commits. He blends strong visual design training (BFA in Graphic Design/Typography) with hands-on engineering across Rails, LAMP stacks, DevOps, and front-end best practices. Jonathan is as comfortable pitching products and negotiating with clients as he is shipping reusable frameworks and internal tools—bringing an uncommon mix of pedagogy, product sense, and production engineering to early-stage ventures.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Graphic Design Typography, Bachelor Graphic Design Typography at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague | Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK)
English, Dutch