Villanova University

Texas A&M University

Staff Software Engineer at Twitter

Taking a break after some pretty volatile times at the tweet factory.

Career Break

Health and well-being

Twitter

Staff Software Engineer

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Software Engineer

During my six years at Twitter, I wore a wide variety of hats and worked on several different teams, with an overarching focus on mobile applications.  My main positions:

Software Engineer, Mobile Web
Worked to build features for the Twitter Mobile Web platform using Ruby.  Responsible for a large part of the deployment and monitoring infrastructure.

Software Engineer, Android
Learned Android development with a focus on building for handsets in the developing world.  

Technical Lead, Mobile Tools and Infrastructure
Developed new continuous-integration strategies for Twitter's mobile apps (Android and iOS), as well as maintenance of existing Jenkins, Gerrit and Git servers.  Helped maintain and upgrade Twitter's Mobile Device Lab and Apple build/test infrastructure.

Technical Lead, Android Performance
Responsible for performance improvements in the Twitter for Android application including network switching/upgrading via HTTP/2 and experimentation with new text compression algorithms.

Staff Engineer

I work on the platform and applications team at LinkedIn, building and running tools that leverage the social graph and rich data set provided by LinkedIn users.  It's a fast-paced team, where I regularly work concurrently on many stages of the software development life cycle.

Some of my projects at LinkedIn include:

* Development and maintenance of our InApps, which interact with the LinkedIn platform using OpenSocial and are built using agile web technologies.  I build, deploy and monitor applications that are used by millions of people every day.

* Support of a wide variety of mobile clients through the construction and maintenance of the LinkedIn mobile server.  Responsible for the development of new features, production monitoring, performance tuning and security audits.

* Research and implementation of a continuous integration environment for automated testing and deployment using Hudson.

LinkedIn

Senior Software Engineer

Agile web developer specializing in using Ruby on Rails to develop rapid client-centered internet applications.  Available for a range of services including programming, design, and general consulting.

Self Employed

Freelance Web Application Engineer

Lead architect on a shot production tracking tool used by several hundred people worldwide.  More than 3 years of experience working remotely in a virtual team environment. Developed a fluency in open source web development. Principal administrator of both Linux and Windows web and application servers. Extensive experience building production pipelines, enterprise search, and web based chat.

Reel FX

Software Architect

Learned the principles of building large scale software solutions that utilized web technologies.

The Software Group

Programmer/Analyst

Responsible for complete development of a web based inventory tracking tool.  Received early experience in requirements elicitation, configuration management and iterative development

Jon Bettcher