# Jimmy Longley

> Fullstack Lead @ Consensus

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jimmylongley

A hands-on Software Engineering Leader with 12 years of experience, primarily in the web ecosystem. Proven track record of building and scaling technology teams, successfully designing and operating large-scale, complex, high-availability solutions, and driving innovative technology strategy. Passionate about education, and inspired by the ways technology can empower learners.

As the first engineering hire at BookNook, I grew a team of 2 into a multidisciplinary technology organization of 26 FTEs and 13 near-shore contractors. I bootstrapped Product and Engineering culture, developing career ladders, security posture, and more. As the primary code author, I developed a prototype into a product catalog that has helped over 150,000 students.

At Amazon, I worked on a wide range of projects across the whole stack. I’ve built dozens of services, from WebGL-based flight simulators to cloud-based ETL systems for processing terabytes of sensor data. I’ve worked on a high-performance Java-based tracing system that worked at Twitter-scale TPS, all the way down to doing SEO for a small farm in exchange for food and a bed when I spent 14 months traveling the world in 2016.

I am open to new opportunities.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Consensus
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Reconstruction US
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Refactoring admin portal functionality in Nextjs and Typescript. Implemented a design system and component library with Storybook and tailwind CSS. Launched MVP of LLM-based curriculum generation tool using Next.js and FastAPI on AWS.

### Vice President Of Engineering @ BookNook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Led the Engineering vertical at BookNook, an Ed-tech startup teaching literacy skills to struggling readers through interactive small-group instruction.

### Head of Engineering @ BookNook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Seattle
As the first dedicated engineering hire, built BookNook’s core functionality and established engineering best practices.

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA
Lead developer on ground platform team for the Amazon Prime Air drone delivery program. Worked on many projects, varying from creating interfaces for pilots to designing systems for automated handling of flight data at scale.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Initially as an intern and later full-time, worked on Global Action Trace, a high-performance, large-scale (5 million events/minute) distributed tracing system used to monitor and analyze Amazon’s service-oriented architecture. 

Worked on many projects varying from creating graph visualization tool with d3.js for analyzing service connectivity, to rewriting the daemon in python, a small application that gets deployed on every Amazon host.

### Software Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012

### Software Intern @ Metabolon
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Washington
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026

### BSE in Mechanical Engineering
Duke University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### UNSW
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jimmylongley
- Website: https://jimmylongley.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22