Jonah Grimes

Architect and design innovative, scalable, and secure solutions using modern web technologies and systems, collaborating with VPs, Directors, and stakeholders to understand strategic objectives and align technology solutions to business goals.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze business needs, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to development teams, ensuring best practices and adherence to architectural standards.
• Drive the evaluation and selection of appropriate technologies and frameworks to meet project requirements.
• Lead and participate in architecture reviews, providing system enhancements and improvement recommendations.
• Articulate complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to influence decision-making and drive organizational change.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging trends, technologies, and industry best practices in modern web development.

Champion modern software engineering practices through feature management and product experimentation with LaunchDarkly's key customers, driving successful digital transformation and technology migration initiatives.

• Create scalable onboarding content, integrating feature management and product experimentation seamlessly into daily workflows for new teams using the LaunchDarkly platform.
• Design and implement frontend, backend, and mobile quickstart template applications in multiple programming languages, promoting platform and language idiomatic usage of feature management while adhering to LaunchDarkly's best practices.
• Create and deliver professional services offerings, accelerating customer adoption of feature management and product experimentation in their software delivery processes.

Managed a high-performing delivery team, orchestrating cloud architecture and DevOps enhancements on Amazon Web Services for multiple concurrent clients, maximizing the potential of cloud technology for their workloads.

• Collaborated with C-level executives, senior management, architecture, engineering, and operations teams to ensure adherence to AWS best practices, optimizing client environments for cloud-based operations.
• Designed and maintained sophisticated cloud-based distributed systems, utilizing infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK.

Aligned business priorities and initiatives with technology solutions, devising a strategic technical roadmap to drive the digital transformation of core product offerings. Established a cloud center of excellence, empowering product delivery teams to build their best software while adhering to well-established best practices for security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost optimization on Amazon Web Services.

• Crafted a strategic technical roadmap that played a pivotal role during Equifax's due diligence and acquisition of Appriss Insights for $1.8 billion.
• Managed a $2.4 million cloud infrastructure budget across multiple software engineering teams, leading to a 15% reduction in overall operational costs.
• Successfully orchestrated the migration of workloads from Docker to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, enhancing scalability and efficiency.
• Significantly reduced security vulnerability remediation time for the Enhanced VINE product suite, improving response times from weeks to hours.
• Optimized operational costs for Kinesis and Amazon RDS, achieving over 25% cost reduction while doubling system capacity.
• Implemented developer experience tools, including ArgoCD, Backstage, and Github to foster cross-team collaboration, increase documentation visibility, and improve SOC2 audit results across the Appriss Insights technology landscape.

Developed and oversaw a comprehensive suite of event-driven and REST API-based services for the core entity resolution workload, powering the PMP AWARxE product. These services facilitated real-time data ingestion and consolidated search functionality for patient prescription and dispensation history.

• Created a Java-based framework for entity resolution and consolidated search, significantly reducing the time needed to implement new entity resolution algorithms from months to just days.
• Engineered scalable algorithms for entity resolution, efficiently managing over 2 billion unique vertices and tens of billions of edge connections, while maintaining sub-second search response times.
• Successfully established and managed a robust twenty-seven node Apache Cassandra cluster on Amazon Web Services, ensuring reliable and high-performance data storage and retrieval.

Developed and managed full-stack applications catering to criminal justice investigative needs for law enforcement officials and background screening requirements for commercial entities. Utilized NoSQL databases, cloud infrastructure, and scalable data analytics stacks to ensure optimal performance.

• Spearheaded the development of RiskCheckNow, a web and API-based background screening product catering to incarceration, justice, and risk intelligence markets.
• Conducted research and made strategic decisions in favor of MongoDB and Cassandra databases for entity resolution workloads, enabling real-time data processing and consolidated search functionalities with rapid response times.

Developed and managed business logic and data transformation components for a high-scale integration broker, facilitating the migration from legacy mainframe-based airline operations and scheduling platforms. This transition reduced system coupling and enabled swift design and implementation of new data transformations.

• Introduced and led adoption efforts of the Fusebox framework, revolutionizing application development on the Macromedia ColdFusion platform.
• Constructed efficient web-based internal tools using Macromedia ColdFusion, streamlining departmental business processes for multiple cross-functional units within the UPS air group division.
• Provided crucial support and data modeling design guidance for the large-scale migration of end-user computing data from Microsoft Access to Oracle Enterprise, ensuring a smooth and successful transition.