John E. Jones IV #

Contact #

  • Email: john@johnjonesfour.com
  • Phone: (570) 640-8746

About #

I've led engineering across environments most leaders only see one of — a venture-backed fintech startup, Capital One, a DC-based foundation, and a government contractor. That range has made me fluent across regulated industries, ambiguous problem spaces, and the full spectrum from scrappy MVP to enterprise-scale. I write code, lead teams, and close the gap between technical and business.

Professional Experience #

Vice President of Engineering, Head of Customer Experience, Bondway.ai (2024 - Present) #

  • Coordinated regularly with company leadership, sales, and product leads in addition to direct customer interaction to conceive, design, and implement new features and technical solutions
  • Architected, implemented, and maintained several critical platform features using Go, Typescript, Vue on AWS stack including ECS Fargate + Aurora Postgres managed via Terraform
  • Oversaw production stability of a system calculating real time bond prices for 32,000+ US corporate bonds as trades executed and yields changed
  • Architected, implemented, and maintained a real time alerting system that evaluated customer generated rulesets over bond and bond index prices
  • Architected, implemented, and maintained platform migration from single region availability to multi–region active-active availability
  • Integrated large language model API into product to analyze customer input to leverage existing features and provide market analysis
  • Designed, implemented, and managed fully automated CI/CD solution using GitLab to drive culture of rigorous testing and regular, unceremonious deployments to production
  • Executed user interviews to understand customer needs, friction points, and opportunities

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Capital One (2023 – 2024) #

  • Oversaw version two architecture, development, deployment, and commercialization of a patented 2nd-factor identity technology that delivers an easy, reliable and privacy-oriented identity management solution to partner card issuers and merchants now in production on newly issued debit cards
  • Spearheaded the adoption of AWS cloud HSM solution to meet product cryptography needs
  • Collaborated extensively with internal product, legal, cyber, and architecture partners, as well as partner teams at licensing and partner companies like AWS and Google to ensure seamless delivery and integration of specialized embedded software
  • Spearheaded the establishment of a generative AI engineering experience team to develop, pilot, and launch generative AI tools tailored to engineers. Also, led the rollout of GitHub Copilot in close partnership with cyber, risk, compliance/regulatory, and enterprise teams as a part of that effort
  • Managed a team of over a dozen associates and contractors

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Capital One Lab (2020 – 2023) #

  • Began as a Manager and earned promotion in 2021 due to exceptional performance
  • Served as architect and team lead for a crypto trading and ledgering platform
  • Successfully led the integration of iOS App Clips platform into Capital One's primary iOS application platform
  • Played a pivotal role as the production lead on several Lab and partner team internal platforms
  • Led multiple proofs of concept and experimental work exploring AR/VR, identity tech, cryptocurrency, among others

Vice President of Technology, the Case Foundation (2017 – 2020) #

  • Built a robust open-source partnership with GitHub, culminating in joint funding and execution of a comprehensive report on the state of open source in the nonprofit ecosystem, which included highlights of international development efforts around open data and open source efforts in healthcare management
  • Published multiple articles and spoke at tech and nonprofit conferences on the state of open source (Examples include Stanford Social Innovation Review, GitHub Universe, All Things Open.)
  • Led multiple builds and production support with vendors and staff supporting foundation programmatic efforts
  • Managed and oversaw multiple vendors delivering software builds and IT management to meet organization needs

Director of Engineering, Adfero (2011 – 2017) #

  • Began tenure as Engineer; promoted to Sr Engineer in 2012, promoted to Director in 2015
  • Led builds and production support for dozens of websites and platforms for clients (LAMP stack primarily in addition to Node, Python, and Java) such as Axios, Politico, Ballmer Foundation, Microsoft, AT&T, various federal agencies, and American Medical Association
  • Engineering lead on multiple large scale Government contracts including DHS international student portal and Veterans’ Affairs career development portal. Both platforms serving traffic scale in the millions with thousands of signups monthly
  • Managed a team of software engineers, project managers, and QA engineers

Education #

Dickinson College — B.S. Computer Science (Graduated 2011) #

Skills #

  • Languages: Go, TypeScript, Python, Swift/iOS, Java, HTML/CSS
  • Frontend: React, Vue, Node.js, Android
  • Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (ECS Fargate, Lambda, CloudFormation), Terraform, Docker, Serverless
  • Data: Aurora Postgres, RDBMS, NoSQL such as Mongo and DynamoDB
  • AI/ML: LLM integration, local and cloud model deployment, prompt engineering
  • Engineering Leadership: Team building, mentorship, hiring, org design, executive communication
  • Delivery: CI/CD, agile, iterative product development