Marshall Jones
Co-Founder at Very Good Security
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarshall Jones is a seasoned engineering-focused manager and co-founder with 16 years of experience building high-availability financial systems that process billions of dollars across millions of transactions. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on coding and system design with team leadership—mentoring engineers, reviewing architecture, and translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders. He has deep expertise designing and operating RESTful APIs, concurrency-safe payment and escrow platforms, and resilient infrastructure capable of reconciling and recovering from catastrophic events. Marshall’s background spans full-stack work (including an Ember.js-based dashboard and auth integration for Balanced) through backend and infra, honed largely at small companies where engineers wear many hats. He prioritizes engineering craftsmanship, automation, and autonomous teams that deliver reliable, auditable systems. Outside of work he’s an avid surfer, yogi, guitarist and traveler, traits that inform his calm, pragmatic leadership style.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Wellington CollegeBusiness & Computing, Business & Computing at Massey University
python
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
back-end-development10
authentication10
user-authentication10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
rest-api10
database10
cors9
cross-domain9
proxy9
stripe-payments9
css9
xmlhttprequest9
facebook-graph-api9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
balanced/balanced-dashboard
Mar 2013 - Apr 2014
The Balanced dashboard.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:204 commits, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Marshall contributed to the implementation of login functionality and the integration of an authentication store within the Ember.js-based dashboard. They also refactored code, updated templates, and modified the build process. The user demonstrated experience with Ember.js models, controllers, views, and routes, as well as integrating with an API. Furthermore, the user set up the necessary front end and back end API endpoints for authentication to work.
balanceddashboard
verygood-ops/verygood.hardening
May 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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