Summary
Jonathan Wolter is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 17 years of experience building high-availability, payment-processing systems and developer platforms at Square, where he helped scale the Developers org from a handful to 70+ and now leads efforts to build Square Financial Services. He combines hands-on distributed-systems engineering (moving tens of billions annually, EMV/NFC/debit routing) with org-building, curriculum design for new engineering managers, and platform strategy that reaches board-level conversations. Jonathan also applies technical rigor to long-term investing and community development as founder of a Qualified Opportunity Zone fund and a limited partner at Array Ventures. He enjoys teaching complex distributed-systems concepts, organizes weekly small-group dinners to connect entrepreneurs and creatives, and pursues alternative asset interests from timber to emerging food science.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ignite, Ignite at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Bachelor Science, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor Science, Industrial Engineering at Purdue University
MBA, withdrawn, MBA, withdrawn at University of Chicago