# Jonathan Steck

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathansteck

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Highnote
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Highnote
Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend development - Java, Typescript, GraphQL, Spanner

### Senior Software Engineer @ KAYA Climb
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | SF
Backend development - Node.js, GraphQL, AWS (RDS, Lambda etc), MySQL

### Software Engineer - Senior Software Engineer @ Rakuten Marketing
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Mateo
Programmatic buying of ad inventory - Java and Golang

### Intern @ Deep Forest Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto
Backend Software Development

### Capstone Project @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Berkeley, California
The Future of Valet Parking
Working with a five person team on a novel autonomous parking system.  Created a data structure to represent a parking structure in MATLAB.

### Summer Intern @ Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Moss Landing, California
Worked in the LRAUV (long range autonomous underwater vehicle) lab. Developed computer vision code in MATLAB to visually track jellies. Developed computer vision code in C++ using Opencv to minimic previous MATLAB code. Stream-lined C++ code to run in real time on an embedded system (Jetson TK1).

### Year-round Intern @ JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Pasadena, CA
Worked on the Rosetta Mission.  Prepared informational presentations.  Modeled the chemistry of our proto-solar nebula using CHEMK software.

### Summer Reseach Fellow @ Claremont McKenna College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Claremont, CA
Received a Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship. Optimized van der Waals radius and well depth for small molecules using AMBER molecular dynamics package.

### Physics Tutor @ Claremont McKenna College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Claremont, CA
Worked as a private physics tutor and held Keck Science physics tutoring sessions weekly or semi-weekly.  Also graded student homework assignments.

### Summer Research Fellow @ Claremont McKenna College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Claremont, CA
Received a Rose Hills Foundation Fellowship.  Performed detailed spectral analysis on a binary star system Epsilon Aurigae using MIRA image processing software.

### Annual Giving Intern @ Claremont McKenna College
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Claremont, CA
Conducted alumni interviews to determine the success rate of donation solicitations by phone.


## Education
### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics Math dual with the Scientific Modeling Sequence
Claremont McKenna College


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31