# Jonathan Dobbie > Software Engineer Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathandobbie ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2025 – Present ### Founding Software Engineer @ Lekko Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Labelbox Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Streak CRM Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 Architected and built distributed systems to enable real time graph queries on billions of rows of email metadata. Designed and built permission and sharing models. Built an Object Mapping system for Google Spanner ### Software Engineer @ Heap Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 Assisted Heap with scaling and architectural issues before joining. Pushed for alignment across the organization on direction and coordination. Designed and built much of Heap's SFDC integration. ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Designed and built APIs and tools on top of those APIs for internal use. Worked closely with security, legal, support and product teams to safely meet needs. Wrote full stack user facing code. ### IT Specialist @ Kauai Forest Bird Recovery Project / Kauai Seabird Recovery Project Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Kauai, HI ### IT Specialist @ Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Maui, HI ### Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead @ Optimizely Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Designed and built the customer facing RBAC permission system. Led the backend team in stabilizing the existing MongoDB powered analytics backend, and replacing it with a more stable, correct, and cheaper Hbase system. ### Web Application Programmer @ Berkeley Phylogenomics Group Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Berkeley, CA Improved a web application built with Postgresql, Python, and Django. Served as lead programmer for the PhyloFacts phylogenomic resource and the core programmer and designer of FAT-CAT, a scalable high-speed automatic functional annotation system for amino acid sequences. Reverse engineered the existing schema and helped colleagues understand and perform scientific inquiry within it. Created tools to assist scientists in hypothesis generation and testing. Wrote a javascript phylogram viewer. Produced posters suitable for international biology conferences. Wrote parsers and deduced scalable data models for third party data. ### Web Developer @ Advantage Communication Enterprises Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 Mostly Perl. Mostly Awesome. We would get calls that a site had an order of magnitude increase in traffic coming, and get it ready with twine, scotch tape, and team work. ### System Administrator ii @ Minneapolis College of Art and Design Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 ### Perl Programmer @ University of Michigan Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 Wrote Perl and BASH and SQL supporting research concerning patent thicket visualization.ImplementedSubversion. Supported two SUSE servers ### System Administrator @ Student Buyers' Association Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Revived and stabilized network after mismanagement. Used Xserve as a PDC with XP clients. Analyzed office workflow and wrote automation tools to assist clerical workers. ### System Administrator @ Inter-Cooperative Council at the University of Michigan Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Maintained and expanded Windows XP clients with OSX server. Used Slackware for rsynced backups. ### Various @ UNS Home Health Inc Jan 1998 – Jan 2003 Helped identify appropriate uses of technology and trained office staff. Built a small network of available computersto encourage coworkers to share documents. A MySQL/PHP project was designed and implemented to replacearchaic paper tracking systems. Assisted in HIPAA transition. Data Entry. ## Education ### BS in Computer Engineering University of Michigan ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathan-dobbie-027a28a --- Source: https://flows.cv/jonathandobbie JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jonathandobbie/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01