Jovel Crisostomo

Jovel Crisostomo is a Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub, based in Seattle, Washington. He has been with GitHub since September 2019, initially joining as a Staff Software Engineer before advancing to his current managerial role in March 2020. In his position, he oversees the Apps team, which is responsible for programmatic access to GitHub services.

Crisostomo has a solid background in software engineering, having worked at several notable companies prior to GitHub. His experience includes a role as Principal Engineer at Twilio Inc., where he was involved in building a next-generation API Gateway, and as a Senior Software Engineer at SendGrid, where he developed customer-facing and backend services using various programming languages such as Go, Python, and JavaScript. He also has experience in API development and system administration from earlier positions at companies like OneScreen and The Aerospace Corporation.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Irvine, where he was recognized for his contributions to research in computer science.1