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JONATHON W. MARSHALLLOOKING FOR FULL-TIME OPPORTUNITIES

Engineering.From theground up.

Senior platform & AI engineer.
I build the infrastructure, tools, and products that turn ideas into working systems.

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20+ yearsENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
250+ staffSUPPORTED BY AI TOOLING
Cloud + on-premINFRASTRUCTURE EXPERIENCE

01 / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Full résumé (PDF) ↗

BenchSci

MAR 2022 — MAY 2026

Senior Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

  • Scaled multi-cloud infrastructure to 30+ Kubernetes clusters supporting AI-driven biological research for top-25 pharma clients.
  • Reduced total deployment time by 20% by re-architecting release workflows with Prefect; owned release and incident on-call processes across three generations of single-tenant products.
  • Enabled secure AI developer tooling for 250+ staff through company-wide guardrails, automated review agents, and red-teaming of agent workflows and code-execution sandboxes.

Intersect

MAR 2017 — MAR 2022

Senior Professional, Development Operations

  • Architected cloud and hybrid infrastructure across GCP, AWS, and bare metal for clients including TD Bank, Facebook, and Walmart.
  • Reduced initial engineering overhead by 90% with automated environment templates, standardized CI/CD pipelines, and reusable backend services.
  • Built self-service workflows and operational documentation that reduced new-hire onboarding time by 2–3 days.

Big Viking Games

JAN 2016 — MAR 2017

DevOps, Data Team

Built a near-real-time analytics platform processing 10M+ daily in-game events with Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Amazon S3. Managed bare-metal Docker Swarm clusters and data pipelines for audience analytics.

GALLOP LABS

OCT 2014 — JAN 2016

DevOps / System Engineer

Orchestrated AWS Hadoop clusters for Facebook advertising analytics and built web applications for account integration, audience modeling, and campaign performance.

BNOTIONS

AUG 2013 — OCT 2014

DevOps / Systems Engineer

Delivered custom AWS infrastructure for clients including TD Bank, RBC, Indigo, Johnson & Johnson, and Facebook. Shared DevOps practices as a panelist and host in the Toronto tech community.

02 / SELECTED WORK

Four projects. Open to explore.

01Project PhoenixArchival platform / BME

Rebuilding a cultural archive.

A ground-up rebuild of Body Modification Ezine, a 32-year cultural archive affected by a catastrophic data incident. The work brings together content recovery and a new platform designed around data sovereignty, user privacy, and long-term stewardship.

Visit BME

Engineering focus

A cloud-agnostic foundation and a self-governing organization designed to outlast any single contributor.

ElixirPhoenixAshData preservationPrivacy
02LastFee 🏁Digital commerce / Co-founder

Digital products. Direct to buyers.

A direct-to-buyer platform for independent creators selling digital products, from music and typefaces to 3D assets, LUTs, courses, and print files. As co-founders and developers, we are building a product around straightforward selling and capped platform fees, with no monthly subscription.

Visit LastFee

Product & engineering

Instant storefronts, Stripe-connected payments, and automatic previews generated on upload, including audio clips, watermarked images, and first-page PDFs.

ElixirPhoenixStripeFull-stack
03ScopewrightAgentic development / Creator

Better reviewers start with domain expertise.

A framework supporting Claude Code and the Pi coding harness that interviews you and creates review subagents tailored to your project. You supply the domain knowledge; Scopewright provides the structure for evaluating the work.

More about Scopewright

Engineering focus

Dependency-ordered evaluation, strict read-only constraints, prompt-injection defenses, and clear verdict authority.

Claude CodePiAI toolingReview workflowsGuardrails
04SONDERNISTADOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

A practice of paying attention.

Long-form documentary photography of the body modification community. Street photography and candid portraiture form a patient record of people and culture, made up close and over time.

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Photographer & documentarian

A parallel creative practice grounded in observation, trust, and the people behind the work.

DOCUMENTARYPORTRAITUREFILMMEDIUM FORMAT

03 / BACKGROUND

Systems thinking. Hands-on execution.

Infrastructure.
Intelligence.
Implementation.

I'm Jonathon, an engineer with more than two decades of experience across platforms, infrastructure, and software. My work spans top-25 pharma and enterprises including TD Bank, Facebook, and Walmart.

Platform & cloud

Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Reliability, portability, and scale.

AI & agentic development

Team workflows, internal tooling, evaluations, and guardrails. Hands-on security and red-teaming experience.

Product engineering

Applications from data model to interface, in Elixir/Phoenix, TypeScript, and Python.

Production mindset

Connecting application development with the infrastructure and operational practices needed to run it.

04 / WHAT'S NEXT

Good work starts
with a conversation.

I'm exploring full-time engineering roles in platform infrastructure, AI tooling, and product development.