Jonathan Block

Founder

United States24 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Scaled DoorDash by 200x and Lyft by 15x.
Built Facebook's first ad server in 2004.
Co-founded a company acquired by MTV.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Media expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

CicdWeb Development

Other Skills

BazelPHPMongoDBAmazon Web Services (AWS)PythonHerokuPostgreSQLZend FrameworkNode.jsOOPWeb ApplicationsRESTScalabilityAmazon S3jQuery

About

Builder. 2× CTO. Scaled DoorDash 200×, Lyft 15×. Built Facebook’s first ad server (2004). Co-founded a company acquired by MTV. Now building Low Touch Advisor - a network of elite engineers and cloud architects doing high-impact low touch advisory work.

Experience

24 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Lowtouchadvisor

Founder

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

Get paid to provide eng help via Slack ext- channel. No coding, meetings or zooms. Minimal time commitment. Visit https://www.lowtouchadvisor.com/

Safeboda

2 roles

Advisor

May 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Kampala, Uganda

Interim CTO

Nov 2016 – Nov 2016 · 0 mo · Kampala, Uganda

Design and launch rideshare platform.

Doordash

Bazel Build Engineering

Nov 2016 – Dec 2025 · 9 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

Founding member of build & release teams supporting 3,000+ engineers. Specialization in CICD (continuous delivery & continuous integration). Designed custom pipeline DSL for DoorDash. Author of numerous critical internal tools including chatops tools, break the glass "emergency merge", merge queue, and feature flags & kill switch system. Interviewed over 1,000 candidates.

BazelCICD

Lyft

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2013 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco

Design product architecture and implement new features. Worked on DevOps, Automation and product teams. Engineering team was approx 35 people when I joined. Helped grow company 15x.

Rockthepost.com (rebranded as onevest.com)

CTO

Oct 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo · New York City Metropolitan Area

Built fully operational engineering organization with team members that specialize in front and back end development, cloud server operations, and user testing.
Upon joining the company, all development was outsourced. The company's main focus was a business model similar to Kickstarter in which users would make donations to entrepreneurs seeking funding. We brought all of the development activities in-house and relaunched as an equity crowdfunding company.

Gethired.com

Lead Engineer

Oct 2011 – Sep 2012 · 11 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Hired as the lead engineer, I helped to refactor and relaunch GetHired's MVP website using PHP, MongoDB, Amazon Ec2 and RightScale.

Justgiving

Director of Engineering

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · San Francisco, CA

Built engineering team in San Francisco. Together, we created a donations REST API. The company was later acquired for the donations API that my team built.

Reputation.com

Lead Engineer

Aug 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr · Redwood City, CA

I worked with a small team to help develop Reputation.com's "MyPrivacy" product.

Hotornot.com

Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

Collegepublisher

Co-Founder

Dec 1999 – Jun 2007 · 7 yrs 6 mos · Boston, MA

Co-creator of CollegePublisher.com. Sold to MTV Networks / Viacom in 2006. Handwrote first ad server used on Facebook in 2004 during my time with the company.