Summary
Ty Mondragon is an infrastructure engineer in Longmont, Colorado with eight years of software and systems experience, who transitioned from a decade as a fine jeweler into full-stack and infrastructure engineering. He brings a craftsman’s attention to detail to building end-to-end platforms and APIs, with hands-on experience across Node/Express, Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, Angular, and cloud infrastructure work. At Otus he moved from full-stack into infrastructure responsibilities, and previously helped education and restoration tech companies ship reliable backend services and developer-focused PaaS features. Comfortable in remote, agile teams and pair-programming environments, he blends product-focused empathy with pragmatic engineering. An unusual strength is his background in jewelry design, which informs a strong aesthetic and process-driven approach to code quality and system design.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Metal and Jewelry Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Metal and Jewelry Arts at Colorado State University
Certificate, Full Stack Web Development in the JavaScript Node.js environments, Certificate, Full Stack Web Development in the JavaScript Node.js environments at Galvanize Inc