Summary
Jono Finger is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable web and mobile systems, currently focusing on carbon removal platforms at Terradot. He has led backend and full-stack initiatives—from GraphQL and gRPC infrastructure at Udemy to data pipelines and city-scale web apps at Populus—bridging Python, Django, FastAPI, React, and cloud-native tooling. Known for improving developer experience and security, he founded a Local Development Guild, created a custom test framework, and ran workshops on OWASP top-10 penetration testing. His background includes platform engineering at Public Library of Science and bioinformatics tooling, giving him a rare mix of scientific rigor and production-grade architecture. An active open-source advocate based in Albany, CA, he consistently contributes to mission-driven organizations and builds tools that make developer workflows faster and safer.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz