# Jonas Maximilian Sota

> Fullstack technical lead

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jonasmaximiliansota

jonassota.com

* 7+ years of experience, full-stack engineering lead + product designer.
* Core technologies: Typescript, React, GraphQL, Rust, Node, Postgres, Solidity, NextJS, AWS, Docker, Figma.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Rippling
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Founder @ MoonDip
Jan 2023 – Present | Berkeley, California, United States
MoonDip summarizes your newsletters and rolls them into a single digest w/ links to the full newsletters, making managing 20+ newsletters and surfacing the gems that matter to you super easy.

moondip.xyz

* Running experiments towards Product-Market Fit.
* Engineering AI prompts + architecture to produce high-quality summaries.
* Achieving 99.9% uptime for web server and multiple workers and blazing fast response times using Rust.

### Lead Solidity Developer @ Loop Crypto
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boulder, Colorado, United States
I designed and implemented Web3’s first decentralized recurring payments system.

* Led smart contract projects from ambiguous problem to technical design and implementation.
* Architected novel smart contracts for automating recurring ERC-20 transfers and swaps on-chain.
* Worked with assembly, machine opcodes, and bytecode in order to write performant and secure code.
* Built testing tools on top of Foundry.

### Software Engineer @ January
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Fullstack technical lead and UX designer, leading Frontend development at January. Together we build a debt collection product with a 4.8/5 stars on Google Reviews from borrowers and industry-leading results for our clients.

* Lead technical projects from ambiguous problem to technical design and implementation.
* Collaborated with leadership to overhaul the consumer app, growing revenue by 55X over 2 years.
* Mentored 6+ engineers on FE development with React, GQL, performance profiling, debugging, and testing.
* Designed UI’s and user flows for users with low technical literacy.
* Architected a highly extensible, performant, and maintainable FE architecture for a mobile-first web app.
* Built scalable backend services using Python, GQL, and SQL.
* Managed A/B experiments from product validation and discovery through implementation.

### Founder @ Athena
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Created a chrome extension for highlighting text and takings notes on web pages and PDFs.

Demo -- https://www.notion.so/Athena-a-chrome-extension-for-highlighting-text-on-web-pages-9983c0f494d6400289e987cf8307ff32

### Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
* React
* Relay, REST
* Redux
* SASS/CSS
* Chai, Sinon
* Java, Spring


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in B.A. in Philosophy
UCLA
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonassota
- Website: http://jonasms@github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22