Our Team

/ Professional Bio

With an English degree from Roanoke College, Jonathan started out as a copywriter. Working at a small company side-by-side with two developers, he was inspired to do some coding of his own. He ended up turning a two-hour copywriting assignment into a two-minute computer-automated process. That was just the beginning. He continued to teach himself coding, and eventually became the university-wide webmaster at VCU. Again, driven to make the inefficient efficient, he converted 500+ custom, homegrown web apps to Symfony for easier maintenance and to ensure optimal performance. Jonathan joined the Foster Made team on April 1, 2015. (Which, he likes to point out, is April Fool’s Day!)

 

/ At Foster Made

Drawing from over a decade of experience, Jonathan is currently in charge of local and remote DevOps. He maintains our local distributed development environments and is our go-to for building out remote environments with AWS. Jonathan is skilled at balancing cost and performance and analyzing background jobs and site traffic to ensure the right tools are used, that they connect and are secure, and that everything works exactly as it should.

 

/ Core Expertise

• PHP Development
• Symfony PHP Framework
• Laravel PHP Framework
• Containerization
• AWS Cloud Architecture