Jonathan Key

Actualizing ambiguity into tangible value-driven outcomes

Cross-industry software engineer with a background in product management, skilled at leading teams to build innovative platforms aligned to strategic business priorities in logistics, datacenters, and infrastructure.
• Architected & launched a suite of 20+ applications over 3 years impacting 11,000+ employees & contractors throughout critical operational business areas.

• Orchestrated alignment between diverse client stakeholders and internal teams to ensure on-time project delivery; developed data-driven products enhancing operational visibility and analytics, resulting in a 10% increase in infrastructure ROI.

• Orchestrated alignment between cross-functional directors and internal teams to design custom project management tools resulting in OKR forecasting tools to plan, migrate, and deliver large infrastructure orders, optimize capital expenditure, & decrease labor expenditures by 20%.

• Led & enabled 5-8 person teams of engineers to design and deliver business solutions in line with budgeted scope and timelines.

• Reduced manual validation times over +80% resulting in tasks time to completion from 2 weeks to 2 days by overhauling applications with robust data-driven platforms, AWS, Azure, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI.

• Managed teams from 5-20 to plan, budget & organize events to promote inclusive cultural programming and develop professional skills across multiple regional offices for employee resource groups.

• Interviewed & coached candidates for successful project outcomes. Provided guidance and mentorship to empower colleagues, promote collaboration, inspire leadership & foster innovation across multiple offices.

• Managed relationships with 15 cross-functional departments to prioritize product features that decreased TCO (total cost of ownership) by 30%.

• Identified cost saving opportunities and implemented customized enterprise planning solutions with visualizations to monitor project lifecycle phases and highlight critical KPIs; these enhancements resulted in over $10 million-dollar savings across data center, hardware, and infrastructure operations.

Technical lead for software solutions that enhanced operational efficiency. Architected infrastructure, business logic & UI for mission critical finance-focused applications. Mentored 3-person team on quality deliverables, in addition to producing roadmaps, articles, documents, and technical visuals for client presentations.
• Spearheaded the development of mission critical applications; planned RESTful APIs & detailed documentation with Python & Django, crafted stunning charts & visuals utilizing GraphQL, HighCharts, and provided business insights with actionable steps to increase operational performance by 20%.

• Designed and executed high-level strategic planning & implementation for organization-wide initiatives, deployed CI/CD Pipelines with Gitlab for continuous development & integration testing that resulted in 50% faster unit testing.

• Owned improvement of UI using Typescript (ReactJS & NextJS) resulting in 1300 reusable components. Cut load times by 80% with AWS implementations & defined data governance for the organization.

• Increased task completion by 90% with software automation. Modernized cloud platforms in establishing application ecosystem for continued maintenance.

• Established SQL/PostgreSQL databases with backup cycles & performed data maintenance & data governance.

• Built personalized dashboards for reporting with Salesforce & Plaid integrations resulting in greater operational visibility.