Jonathan Komorek
Charleston,SC
Summary
An accomplished technical leader with over two decades of experience in diverse roles across software development, engineering management, and business leadership. Co-founder and former CTO of a successful startup, Gigpro, where I oversaw the transformation of the initial PHP prototype into a scalable Django, React, and React Native based platform, driving the company to achieve $10m in annualized revenue.
Skills
- Developing and maintaining software systems
- Management and leadership
- Agile and scrum processes
- Infrastructure and system design
- Data analysis
- Customer relations and support
- Security
- Sales and business support
- Usability research and product design
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Co-founder / CTO
Gigpro
07.2020 - 07.2023
- Co-founded software startup with two non-technical founders.
- Spent first five months rebuilding an initial PHP prototype into a scalable platform using Django, React web, and React Native. The product was successfully launched in November of 2020 and is still the primary architecture today.
- Over the course of 2021, as CTO I helped grow Gigpro to about $10m in annualized revenue with one full-time QA and a few contracted engineers. I was responsible for managing the product roadmap as well as leading all engineering and design efforts, and supporting sales and business initiatives. We operated using a basic scrum process including daily team stand ups and weekly demos to the business.
- Through 2022 and 2023 I stepped down as CTO to focus on scaling infrastructure and SDLC processes as we built out engineering and other departments. As internal demand grew for data I led the implementation of a Redshift data warehouse with Tableau dashboards.
Software Engineer
Preclose
05.2018 - 07.2020
- Contributed as senior software engineer with very small startup. Assisted with full-stack development of NodeJS, Django, and React web-applications.
- Provided technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members
- Implemented agile development processes
- Managed QA engineer and testing processes.
Engineering Manager, Systems Architect
Snag
06.2012 - 05.2018
- Designed, implemented, and supported custom ETL platform responsible for product integrations and custom enterprise experience.
- Managed technical services engineering team and traveled on-site to assist enterprise customers with implementation and technical strategy.
Technical Manager, Senior Systems Architect
Geocent
06.2011 - 06.2012
- Led delivery of company goals on $5 million contract.
- Managed software engineers
- Presented bi-weekly progress reports to customers
- Assisted with new project proposals.
- Developed R&D projects for internal initiatives
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
09.2007 - 06.2011
- Developed full-stack Java web applications to enable on-demand book and DVD manufacturing.
- Collaborated with team members using lean processes such as Kanban and Scrum.
- Assisted with 24x7 support of globally deployed software
- Frequently shadowed users to collect data on usability issues and opportunities.
Software Engineer
Benefitfocus
10.2000 - 09.2007
- Took on many technical roles to help grow 12 person startup to 400+ employees
- Began by focusing on network maintenance and server monitoring before becoming full-time Java developer.
- As a developer, focused on J2EE engineering with emphasis on data modeling and security.
- I later became the development security officer, lead security engineering team, and taught other engineers best practices based on OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities list.
- During last year I helped establish application performance management team developing strategies for monitoring and improving application performance.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
College of Charleston
Charleston, SCBachelor of Science - Computer Science
Charleston Southern University
Charleston, SCTimeline
Technical Co-founder / CTO
Gigpro
07.2020 - 07.2023
Software Engineer
Preclose
05.2018 - 07.2020
Engineering Manager, Systems Architect
Snag
06.2012 - 05.2018
Technical Manager, Senior Systems Architect
Geocent
06.2011 - 06.2012
Software Development Engineer
Amazon
09.2007 - 06.2011
Software Engineer
Benefitfocus
10.2000 - 09.2007
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
College of Charleston
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Charleston Southern University
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