Jon Sakas

• Work together with various teams across the organization to enhance the coordination of development activities for several web applications.
• Partner with the product and design teams to brainstorm, create prototypes, and develop functionalities for the main conversational marketing product.
• Ensure the delivery of product features that adhere to high standards of code quality, are well-tested, and thoroughly documented.
• Oversee and improve the tools for web architecture, including mono-repositories and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Write technical documentation by following the internal Request for Comments (RFC) procedure.
• Lead the Web Guild, a team of 5 developers, and represent the web team on the Architecture Guild, contributing to strategic planning and decision-making processes.

• Responsible for the end to end delivery and maintenance of web apps and product infrastructure
• Work directly with marketing, operations, and design teams to ensure products meet business demands
• Architect and oversee software development, infrastructure, quality control, and developer operations
• Budget, evaluate, and onboard new technology solutions for internal use
• Hire, train, and manage team of full-stack software engineers
• Mentor and grow talent as a software leader

Building high performance, accessible, beautiful websites and web apps.

• Managed team of 9 full stack software engineers.
• Led development for the completion of new product initiatives.
• Ran all agile ceremonies including planning, backlog maintenance, sprint review, and daily standup.
• Regular codebase contributions alongside leadership duties

• Lead maintainer for flagship e-commerce product which serves over 5 million users.
• Built frontend component library (Beatport UI) which currently powers 5 production applications.
• Architected and deployed Content Management System for internal and external parties.

• Created mobile optimized front-end applications for web and email.
• Work with strategic and creative teams to produce content that was both user-friendly and forward thinking to maximize campaign success.
• Collaborated with marketing managers to brainstorm impactful campaigns
• Creatively matched marketing goals with appropriate technical plans

Led a team of developers and worked alongside marketing managers to come up with and execute mobile optimized, device-driven marketing campaigns for some of the world’s best-known brands.

• Technical lead for a team of 10 developers
• Collaborated with marketing managers to brainstorm impactful campaigns
• Creatively matched marketing goals with appropriate technical plans
• Developed and maintained a proprietary web application for internal use