I'm Jon — I build software, and I'm congenitally curious about everything else.

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 — usually 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 résumé. I'd rather show you the half-finished, genuinely-mine version of what I do than a polished brand. If that resonates, we'll probably get along.

What I work across

A rough path here

• 2016

  Started in the data trenches

  First real engineering role — pipelines, warehouses, and the dawning realization that most “data problems” are actually naming problems.

• 2019

  Went full-stack, then full-system

  Moved from analytics into building the platforms underneath it. Learned cloud infrastructure the hard way, on a system that mattered.

• 2021

  Picked up the creative tools in earnest

  Motion design and 3D started as a way to explain systems visually, and became a discipline of their own.

• 2023

  Started building for myself

  Independent projects, experiments, and the first version of this archive. The goal: keep the curiosity load-bearing.

• Now

  Multidisciplinary, on purpose

  Contract engineering and data work, creative projects on the side, and a steady habit of starting things I don't yet know how to finish.