# Jon Gear

> Backend Engineer

Location: San Diego Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jongear

I’m a software developer passionate about distributed systems. In our ever-growing digital world, I find the challenge of building and growing products at scale to be fascinating. I have personal interests in web systems, serverless computing, machine learning-based recommender engines, brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and language theory.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Cantina
Jan 2019 – Jan 2025

### Owner @ Gear Consulting LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area

### Solutions Architect @ JDK Technologies, Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
As a solutions architect, I help drive clients to the cloud with an emphasis on microservice and serverless design.  I believe in clean reusable patterns that can be modularized for ease of use and integration.  I work primarily in AWS and Azure with a framework focus of Node.js and .NET

### Instructor (Full Stack Boot Camp) @ Northwestern University School of Professional Studies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
I teach an immersive boot camp focused on full stack web development. The program involves in-class instructional of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Git, Node, Express, React, MySQL, Firebase, MongoDB, Heroku and Python.

### Software Engineer @ Guaranteed Rate
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ WellRight
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Chicago Area
Senior developer for WellRight, a cloud-based corporate wellness startup.  Working with the following technologies: C#, AWS, Web API, AngularJS, Couchbase, DynamoDB

### Developer @ NexLP
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater Chicago Area
Web developer for NexLP, an eDiscovery fraud prevention startup.  Working with the following technologies  C#, MVC4, AngularJS, D3, Keylines

### Engagement Engineer @ Clarity Consulting
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Greater Chicago Area
.NET developer working with a variety of .NET technologies.  Extensive work with C#, WPF, WCF Data Services, Azure, MVC4.  Direct client consulting.

### Enterprise Microsoft Solutions Consultant @ Cardinal Solutions
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
.NET developer working with a variety of .NET technologies.  Extensive work with jQuery, HTML5, ASP.NET Webforms, MVC, Azure, Entity Framework Code First, IoC, MS Test, TypeScript, QUnit and WindowsRT.  Direct client consulting as well as working with scrum certified development teams.

### Application Developer @ CorpComm Group
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Application Developer working in C#/ASP.NET, XSLT, XML, jQuery, Telerik on numerous business class client projects.

### Web Developer @ AccessEast
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Sole ASP.NET/C# 4.0 web developer for numerous websites owned by AccessEast. Worked mostly with WebForms 4.0 and MVC3.

### Programmer Analyst Intern @ Westfield Insurance
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Built the database structure, the database backend and the web application frontend for the Business Intelligence Glossary used for MetaData capturing.   Worked 40 hours a week in Java/JSP.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bowling Green State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonathangear
- Website: https://gear.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/jongear
- Website: https://leetcode.com/jongear

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Last updated: 2026-03-22