# Jonathan Damico > Software Engineer @ Kalshi Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathandamico ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Kalshi Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ TikTok Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Los Angeles, California, United States Worked on both brand advertising and audience measurement teams. Responsible for some of our party measurement integrations with Nielsen and iSpotTV, invalid traffic detection, some of our planning tools, viewability integrations, and contributions to the WFA Halo project. - Invented TikTok’s methodology for converting TV data into a reach curve based on existing industry research and validated my methodology against real-world campaigns. - Designed and implemented a new cross-media campaign planner which leverages third-party TV and CTVOTT viewership data to forecast an optimal advertising plan for a TV + TikTok campaign. - Designed reach curve fitting methodology allowing a curve to be generated from a single reach vs cost point. - Implemented ML/tree-based regression model to predict future reach and frequency based on campaign parameters. - Managed the backend of our viewability solution, emitting metrics using the OMSDK. - Contributed to WFA Halo, an open-source campaign measurement tool built in conjunction with Google and Meta which can measure cross-platform reach and frequency for advertising campaigns. Built TikTok's implementation of this product, which allows us to fulfil incoming requests for measurement. - Built multiple integrations for third parties who perform measurement on TikTok, these integrations fetch and upload advertising impression data. Built a data lake to collate our impression data and created a QA and monitoring process for these uploads. - Technologies used: Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, SQL, Spark, Thrift, gRPC, Bazel, OCI, GCP Employed by ByteDance Inc ### Intern, IT and Special Projects @ KIRU Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States Designed and built full-stack projects to facilitate company operations, worked within the IT team: - Building a custom integration to connect our CRM with our issue tracking tool so that the Customer Service team can communicate issues effectively with our product development team. - Built a custom link shortener for the company, currently migrating the shortener from Firebase to AWS. - Preparing the company to become ISO 27001 certified. ### Digital Analyst Intern @ McKinsey & Company Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | London, England, United Kingdom - Developed rapid technology prototypes for clients to demonstrate new business use cases and potential new product offerings for clients. The prototypes form the basis for which future client work will be built upon. - Created internal documentation for a recently completed study showing how the firm might produce similar work in future. - Helped generate proposals for a client to show how we would build a new product offering and integrate it with their existing technology infrastructure. - Technologies used: TypeScript, Serverless, React, Ionic, Express JS, AWS Api Gateway, AWS Lambda ### Software Developer, IT Lead @ KIRU Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States Formerly: Project Manager Intern Kiru is currently operating in stealth mode. I joined the company at its very start in January 2020 to develop the business model and offer my technical and entrepreneurial expertise. As the company grew and as the business moved out of its planning phase, I began working on the technical side of the product. I acted as an interim project manager before moving to an IT lead role, setting up and maintaining the company's IT infrastructure. - Participated in the early development of the business, pushed business in direction of lean startup methodology + market validation and introduced team to scrum methodology. - Co-created and developed high-level system architecture using ASP.NET microservices backend using MongoDB for database hosted on AWS and react native frontend. - Developed DevOps pipeline using AWS CI/CD tools (CodeDeploy/CodeBuild/CodePipeline) - Using scrum software development methodology for software development. Using tools like Jira and Confluence. - Acted as product manager, coordinating product development between two remote development teams and our in-house product research team. Employed by LATAM Consolidated Tech LLC in Austin, TX providing services for Kiru ### Co-Founder @ Prova Design Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California Prova Design is a backpack company built for students, by students. We fully funded our kickstarter campaign within a week of launching and have shipped backpacks to customers in 23 countries! I built Prova from the ground up with a classmate of mine and together, we learned about everything from manufacturing, shipping and logistics, marketing, and design. The company raised $52k on Kickstarter and generated a net profit within one year after launch. ### Advisor: Pedagogy and Curriculum @ HW Inc Entrepreneurship Camp Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States Previous titles: Tech Lead, COO, CFO, CEO HW Inc is my school's five-day entrepreneurship course which aims to turn students' ideas into fully formed pitches. I am a founding member of the Inc team. I began running tech for the program in 8th grade and have assumed increasingly more responsibility for my time running the program. I have coordinated guest speakers, field trips, catering, and equipment rentals. ### Tech Lead @ HW Inc Entrepreneurship Camp Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Co-Chief Executive Officer @ HW Inc Entrepreneurship Camp Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Chief Financial Officer @ HW Inc Entrepreneurship Camp Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Chief Operations Officer @ HW Inc Entrepreneurship Camp Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Visual Effects, Projection Designer, Lighting Designer @ DJ Unlimited Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Sherman Oaks, California I have built my skills in technical theatre and event management through this venture. Since 8th grade, I have provided projection and lighting design for countless events. I also have created my own assets and can produce real-time, live effects for events. ### Software Engineer @ Onyx Charge Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California, United States - Developed mobile app which allowed users to pay to use to battery chargers at bars and restaurants. - App built in Swift, used PayPal for payment processing and used Bluetooth LE to communicate with battery packs. ### Automation Engineer @ inVia Robotics Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Agoura Hills, California ### Junior Leader @ Camp Dudley Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Westport, NY ### Summer Intern @ Double M Capital Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Worked using tools such as Excel, Word, Numbers, and data visualizers such as Raw to represent information about funds, prepared fund reports. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) King's College London ### High School Diploma Harvard-Westlake School ### Summer Program in iOS Development Make School ### Brentwood School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathandamico - Portfolio: https://jonathandamico.me - Portfolio: https://jdami.co/contact --- Source: https://flows.cv/jonathandamico JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jonathandamico/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13