resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Jonathan Harford",
    "label": "Software Developer",
    "email": "jonathan.harford@gmail.com",
    "phone": "(917) 414-9391",
    "summary": "Full-stack software engineer with 8+ years of experience specializing in event-driven architectures and functional programming. Proven ability to deliver robust e-commerce solutions and real-time applications using Clojure, TypeScript, and SvelteKit. Seeking to apply my skills in building complex, scalable systems.",
    "location": {
      "address": "1236 Parker St.",
      "postalCode": "94702",
      "city": "Berkeley",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "California"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "jonathanharford",
        "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jonathanharford/"
      },
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "jonathanharford",
        "url": "https://github.com/jonathanharford/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "AllScreen (closed beta)",
      "position": "Full-Stack Software Engineer (Freelance)",
      "startDate": "2024-01",
      "endDate": "2025-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Engineered a secure, full-stack clinical questionnaire platform using TypeScript and Supabase, implementing Vercel KV (Redis) for caching to ensure real-time data delivery.",
        "Integrated Stripe for subscription management and payment processing. ",
        "Architected modular, route-based features for admins, clinicians, and recipients, with secure, one-question-at-a-time delivery. ",
        "Employed Tailwind CSS for responsive UI, and Playwright for end-to-end testing."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Mayvenn",
      "position": "Full-Stack Software Engineer",
      "url": "https://mayvenn.com",
      "startDate": "2017-09",
      "endDate": "2023-07",
      "highlights": [
        "Created and maintained Clojure microservices in an event-sourced system",
        "Integrated our site with third-party API vendors for payments (Stripe, Paypal, Zip, Green Dot), shipping (Aftership), customer relation services (Kustomer), marketing (Iterable), and voucher management (Voucherify)",
        "Simplified website modifications for non-developers by moving content out of code and into a content management system (Contentful)",
        "Performed as a context engineer, scoping work for a delivery engineer",
        "Created and maintained documentation for microservices, in-house tools, workflows, and tests",
        "Integrated our site both front-end and back-end with Meta Pixel and Conversions API via GTM and GA, as well as TikTok's Pixel and Events API"
      ],
      "name": "Mayvenn",
      "location": "Oakland, CA"
    },
    {
      "company": "LiveAuctioneers",
      "position": "Back-End Software Engineer",
      "url": "https://liveauctioneers.com",
      "startDate": "2014-06",
      "endDate": "2017-05",
      "highlights": [
        "As the sole back-end member of the mobile apps team, extended the PHP-based mobile API to parallel app development",
        "Created presentational and container React/Redux components for the main site, and TypeScript API endpoints to feed them",
        "Integrated Riskified fraud-prevention service, dramatically reducing incidents of fraudulent bidding",
        "Created Python/Selenium-based and Travis-hosted integration tests to test a websocket-driven bidding console with a PhantomJS browser"
      ],
      "name": "Live Auctioneers"
    },
    {
      "company": "Worth Linen Associates",
      "position": "Client Service Associate, Media Planning & Analysis",
      "startDate": "2003-12",
      "endDate": "2014-06",
      "highlights": [
        "Wrote and maintained Python/Selenium/Pandas script to automate a biweekly data download from vendor website, streamlining a tedious, error-prone task into a one-click procedure"
      ],
      "name": "Worth Linen Associates",
      "location": "New York, NY"
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Exquisite.Monster",
      "startDate": "2025-01",
      "highlights": [
        "Modern Full-Stack: Svelte 5 + SvelteKit 2 + TypeScript, Supabase with Prisma ORM",
        "Real-time Features: Server-Sent Events with Redis pub/sub for live notifications and game state updates",
        "Background Processing: BullMQ job queues handling game expiration, turn timeouts, and email notifications",
        "Authentication & Security: Clerk integration with custom middleware, role-based access control",
        "Caching Strategy: Multi-tier HTTP caching with ETags, CDN optimization, and conditional requests",
        "Testing Strategy: Comprehensive test suite including Playwright E2E and Vitest unit tests"
      ],
      "description": "Architected and developed a production-grade multiplayer web application digitizing the party game “Eat Poop You Cat,” serving real-time collaborative gameplay with sophisticated user-generated content management.",
      "url": "https://exquisite.monster"
    },
    {
      "name": "What Do You Want, A Medal?",
      "url": "https://github.com/JonathanHarford/wdywam",
      "startDate": "2015-04",
      "endDate": "2022-11",
      "highlights": [],
      "description": "Python bot that searches for self-congratulatory tweets, replying with a customized medal image."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Liverpool",
      "area": "Mathematical Sciences",
      "studyType": "BSc.",
      "startDate": "1994-09",
      "endDate": "1997-06"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Back-End",
      "keywords": [
        "Clojure",
        "Python",
        "SQL",
        "Rails",
        "PHP",
        "TypeScript"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Front-End",
      "keywords": [
        "Clojurescript",
        "Javascript",
        "Typescript",
        "SvelteKit",
        "React",
        "HTML/CSS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "AI",
      "keywords": [
        "LangGraph",
        "LangChain",
        "Cursor"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "DevOps",
      "keywords": [
        "AWS",
        "Kafka",
        "Git",
        "Docker"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Comics",
      "keywords": [
        "Drawing",
        "Writing",
        "Reading"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Theater",
      "keywords": [
        "Acting",
        "Improv"
      ]
    }
  ]
}