Summary
Jono O'shea is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams across startups and large tech companies. Based in Austin, he has launched and grown multiple ventures—two of which were acquired—and has held staff and management roles at X and Indeed, blending hands-on coding with strategic execution. Comfortable across the full stack, Jono brings a Web 1.0 enthusiast’s pragmatic craftsmanship to modern systems, favoring durable, maintainable solutions over hype. He repeatedly steps into early-stage seats where product velocity and architectural judgment matter, evidenced by serial founding-engineer roles culminating in his current position at ScaledOps. Colleagues describe him as a builder who translates ambiguous problems into shipping roadmaps while mentoring engineers through growth and acquisition transitions. Despite a career focused on product delivery, he retains a nostalgic appreciation for simple, well-engineered web primitives that inform his design choices.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer