Jonah Katz

Hey there 👋.

My name is Jonah Katz and I've been been building products on the web and on mobile for about 10 years.

Things I've done...

• Bachelor's in Computer Science
  Graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in May 2016 from the University of Central Florida.
• Lead Engineer Camber Creative
  Camber is an agile development shop that builds awesome mobile and web apps. I was at Camber since the beginning and have gotten to wear many hats and worked on many interesting projects. Greatly improved my client communication skills, my project management skills (Agile/Jira/Github with large teams) and my development architecture planning and implementation skills. Some of the stuff I've worked on there...

  • Florida Hospital
    Florida Hospital contracted Camber for a number of projects (both internal and for patients). Most notably, we worked on an application for managing the funding and progression of projects. That was built using an Angular front end and a Ruby on Rails (self hosted API) backend.
  • Stretch
    Stretch is a robust, enterprise-like application for families to manage everything in their lives. The platform we built utilizes an AngularJS heavy front end that ties into a custom built API.
  • HCI
    HCI builds custom interactive televisions for hospitals to utilize as patient bed side devices. The TV's allow patients to be entertained, request a nurse, learn about their diagnosis and medication, among other actions. We were involved in ongoing collaboration with HCI to build new and further enhance the Android application offerings on the TV.
  • Movebooth
    Movebooth is a modern day photo booth, or, 'selfie booth', that event organizers use to entertain and engage with their guests. Movebooth consists of an iPad application in which guests interact with, and a Ruby on Rails/AWS powered back end to generate gifs, mp4s, execute shares (email, twitter, mms), and provide a CMS and public facing website.
  • Party Tutor
    Party Tutor is a mobile application that dominates the college nightlife, dining and shopping markets at UF, FSU and UCF. Party Tutor consists of a native iOS mobile application, an administrative CMS (built in Angular) and an backend/API built in Ruby on Rails.
  • Paytollo
    Paytollo is a mobile application that brings tolls to the 21st century. Drivers with the Paytollo app (iOS + Android) use the device's GPS in lieu of traditional toll booths. This app was challenging. We worked agressively on the path tracking algorithms to ensure not only a high success rate (toll charged) but also a very low failure rate (toll charged when it shouldn't have).
• Worked at Lawn Love
  Lawn Love is a Y Combinator backed, on-demand, online platform thats revolutionizing the lawn care industry. Home owners can get their lawn cared for, and lawn care providers can find and manage their workload all via the Lawn Love application. At the time I worked there, Lawn Love was deployed and active in ~20 US cities and expanding rapidly. Daily tasks included hotfixes, scaling optimizations and new feature implementations on their custom built PHP site.
• Founded YOapartment
  YOapartment is a self started web app I built to help university students find apartments using apartment reviews and sublease boards. The website is built entirely using Ruby on Rails. I opted for an end-to-end RoR solution (as opposed to a backend + SPA front end) because it a) offers quick turnaround time and b) (this is a big one) SEO. I have not ever been satisfied with SEO for SPA sites. The site also comes with a pretty robust admin system for apartment complex manager to control their listings and interact with potential residents.
• Built 4Dots
  4Dots is a fun iOS app I built with a buddy of mine. Its pretty simple - its like Words with Friends but for Connect 4. We built it when Swift first came out because we wanted to learn Swift. It was a huge pain because Swift was being updated pretty much on a weekly basis. At least an hour each week was spent just fixing newly introduced syntax errors. No joke. But it was fun and the app got (and still gets) a whole bunch of users. Unfortunately, it will died when Parse dies, so get it while its hot. 🔥
• Worked at Allogy Interactive
  Allogy is an IT services company that focuses on government and medical targetted applications. I worked on their flagship product, Capillary, which aimed to help educators build interactive materials to deploy in government, schools and military.
• Worked at Columbia Presbytarian
  Shortly after high school I worked in the IT department to build applications to increase the efficiency of various day-to-day activities. At the hands of my head-of-IT uncle, this was no walk in the park. From rigurous security checks to developing on nothing but a FreeBSD machine (which I set up myself, mind you), this was largely responsibly for putting me on the track I am on now. Upgrading a project from Ruby on Rails 2 to 3 was one of my bigger accomplishments.

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