Location Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Gender Male
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Jonathan taught himself programming at a young age, beginning with BASIC and Pascal, and always believed he would become a computer scientist, but in college decided to refactor his approach to life and add an abstraction layer in the form of two degrees in Philosophy. Philosophy being useless for paying rent, Jonathan worked as a software
developer for the next 5 years for various startups.
Jonathan then did a degree in Linguistics at Oxford. On the way to subsequent graduate study, the sticky tentacles of web development (read: the desire to build something) drew Jonathan back to San Francisco. Jonathan eventually discovered Sauce Labs and was attracted, given his painful experiences with local Selenium testing, to the obvious value of cloud-based integration tests.
Favorite Cooking Story: I love cooking, baking, and brewing beer, and usually pride myself on the faithfulness of my culinary products to their Platonic forms. Occasionally things don't go so well. One recent brewing expedition (an American Pale Ale) appeared to be proceeding normally until we left the fermenter alone in the apartment for a few days.
We came back to fully half of the beer splattered over the walls and floor. Apparently the airlock had gotten clogged and the yeast had built up enough pressure to expel 2.5 gallons of liquid all over the house. Never underestimate a barrel of eukaryotes!Favorite Sauce: The Indonesian Peanut Sauce from this awesome recipe.
