Resume

hire@jonathanmetz.dev | Lindale, Texas, United States

Positioning

Full-stack product engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating software, including time as a founder and engineer, for startups and small distributed teams. For the past 12 years, I’ve worked remotely and asynchronously, taking ambiguous problems from idea through production with minimal oversight. Product engineering is my primary focus, with platform development as a secondary strength. I’m especially interested in building tools that make complex work easier for people and developers, and I’ve shipped production software for a platform serving more than 1M users.

Experience

Nine Muses - Founder / Engineer

Sep '23 - Oct '26 | Remote

• •Founded Nine Muses and owned product direction, architecture, implementation, and operations across two software products.
• •Designed and built a repeatable xenForo hosting platform to replace manual, per-forum VPS configuration with stateless deployments.
• •Built a working AI thread-summarizer prototype spanning xenForo integration, AI workflows, and an interface for reading generated summaries.

NamePros - Full-stack Developer

Feb '16 - Sep '23 | Remote

• •Built full-stack features for a domain-investing marketplace and research community, primarily through custom xenForo add-ons that extended core systems such as search and user-generated content tagging.
• •Took concise product briefs from initial scoping through implementation, deep development-server testing, and production release, owning delivery after ideation.
• •Investigated and documented approximately 10 xenForo core bugs with reproducible steps and submitted suggested changes with each report; all were fixed by the xenForo development team and credited to me on the developer forum.

Snipbo - Third-party Integration Lead

Apr '15 - Feb '16 | Remote

• •Led third-party integrations for a social media startup, expanding platform capabilities through partner APIs and external content sources.
• •Built content import pipelines for services including YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify to support faster ingestion and richer user experiences.

Jobs2Careers - Software Engineer

Oct '13 - Jul '14 | Austin, Texas

• •Owned the technical pipeline for a pay-per-click job listing site processing more than 5M job listings daily.
• •Built ingestion integrations across normalized XML feeds, static HTML job portals, and JavaScript-based platforms requiring headless-browser crawling.
• •Used reusable integration patterns and a database-backed job queue to deliver and schedule 5–10 new client scrapers or crawlers on busy days.

Core stack

• •Current: TypeScript (full stack), React, Node.js, Docker
• •Earlier: PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Less
• •Practices: Functional programming, API design, automated testing, and cloud deployment

Education

B.S. Computer Information Systems - The University of Texas at Tyler

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