Jonathan Block
Founder at LowTouchAdvisor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Block is a founder and two-time CTO with 11+ years of experience scaling engineering organizations and infrastructure for hypergrowth companies—helping DoorDash grow 200× and Lyft 15×—and an early builder who hand-wrote Facebook’s first ad server in 2004. He specializes in CI/CD, build and release systems, and developer productivity tooling, authoring mission-critical internal tools like custom pipeline DSLs, merge queues, and emergency merge mechanisms at DoorDash. A proven startup operator, he built in-house engineering teams, launched products that led to acquisitions (including an MTV acquisition), and has interviewed 1,000+ candidates to shape strong engineering cultures. Now he runs Low Touch Advisor, a network offering high-impact, low-touch engineering and cloud advisory services—monetizing deep expertise without meetings or code delivery. His open-source contributions include full-stack enhancements to notable tooling like geojson.io, showing hands-on skill across front-end and back-end integrations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Autónoma de MadridThe George Washington UniversityNortheastern UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) New Media, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) New Media at Emerson College
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
api10
front-end-development10
geojson10
apidoc10
git7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/geojson.io
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
A quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing spatial data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan added integration files and modified existing code to include a new "geofenceapi" source. They implemented UI changes to the file bar, enabling saving to the GeofenceAPI. Additionally, the user added dist and lib files and fixed a JavaScript lint error. Code was also updated to use single quotes instead of double quotes for linting and some unused code was removed.
spatial-datageojson
FlaptasticApps/pytest-flaptastic
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Py.test plugin for Flaptastic.
Contributions:46 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 months
testingpythontest-pluginpytest
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