Jon. Software the trade, curiosity the habit.

For about a decade I've worked at the seam between engineering and everything adjacent to it, data, design, motion, and the kind of problems that don't respect job titles.

By trade I'm a software and cloud engineer. I've built internal business tools, data platforms, automation systems, and web applications, often the unglamorous infrastructure that quietly makes a team faster. I care a lot about data architecture: naming things well, modeling a domain honestly, and leaving systems that the next person can actually read.

But I've never been able to stay in one lane. The same curiosity that makes me want to understand a database also pulls me into motion design, 3D and procedural art, photography, writing, and long days in the mountains. I treat them as one practice, not a collection of hobbies, every discipline teaches the others something.

This site is the result - a working archive rather than a traditional résumé. I'd rather share the work-in-progress version of what I am up to than nothing or a polished brand.

What I work across

A rough path here

• 2014 - highschool

  Live dashboards for IoT

  First real development role, building live dashboard websites to observe and manage IoT devices via WiFi

• 2016

  Motion design with a twist

  Broke into (one of) my passions, 3D and motion design, creating with a fusion of artistic and technical knowledge for automated rendering pipelines

• 2018

  Finding the startup world

  Worked as the media director for a startup eSports org, helping build automated tools and template based workflows to rapidly onboard talent and publish recurring content

• 2020

  Testing the waters in a year of chaos

  Being cooped up inside pushed me further out into the world of consulting, and building things because I loved the project

• 2023

  Diving into data

  My continuing education into data analytics was worth the effort when I got an opportunity to work with a focused team to improve an insurance agency's data handling and dashboards, resulting in a multi-year partnership

• 2025

  Owning the full stack

  One of those opportunities where you get to tap into everything you have learned, and then some - building systems across mobile apps, web, IoT, and cloud for a scalable and realtime solution

• Now

  Multidisciplinary, on purpose

  Contract engineering and data work, creative projects on the side, and a steady habit of shipping on my own