I'm Jon, a Software Engineer currently living in Boston with my wife, two kids, and two cats.
I have over a decade of experience working professionally on SaaS Backend systems. I've also done sysadmin work, and am comfortable on a command line. The server this website is running on is one example of a my experience working with cloud hosting. I've built servers on CentOS, Ubuntu, and Unraid.
I've worked professionally in Java and PHP environments, and I have experience writing code in Kotlin, Javascript, Bash, Python, and Ruby. The first program I wrote was a QBasic Pong game, but then I took a ten year hiatus before deciding to make a career of it.
As a Backend Engineer I've worked with numerous tools and libraries including MySQL, Kafka, Dropwizard, Docker, Vitess, HBase, Apache, Nginx, and RabbitMQ.
In April of 2015 I moved from New Jersey to Boston to work at Blue State Digital as a Junior Software Engineer. During my time there I learned all the basics and worked my way up to a full Software Engineer. The two systems I enjoyed working on the most were the mass mailer and the payments systems.
Then in June of 2017 I moved to HubSpot and have been there ever since. I was hired on the the Social team, and worked on improving how the product integrated with a variety of networks. We handled scheduled posts, monitoring interactions, replies, and reporting. During that time I was promoted to Senior Software Engineer I.
In 2022 I moved to the FinTech group at HubSpot. There, I began by updating the internal payment systems to do business in new countries according to local regulations. I was then promoted to Technical Lead I and moved to a new team that worked on internal systems that verify bills and invoices were processed correctly.
In my spare time I work on various code projects as things grab my interest: github/jquass
I'm also an avid gamer, and am eternally grateful for Proton making it no longer necessary to have Windows installed at all. Some of my favorite PC games include the Half-Life series, the Talos Principle series, Path of Exile 2, Diablo, Diablo 2, Grand Theft Auto 3, Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, Fallout 4, Thief, Outlast, the Portal Series, and Space Engineers.