👋🏾 Hey there! I’m Jahvon, a software and platform engineer based in Boston with 8+ years building resilient systems and leading cross-functional teams. My work tends to cluster around developer tooling and cloud-native systems, but I follow my curiosity into a lot of different spaces. That has taken me through teaching, community work, and more than a few projects I couldn’t fully explain when I started them.
I build things to understand them. This site is a record of what I’m working on, what I’m figuring out, and occasionally what I got wrong.
Where I’ve Been
Founding Engineer at Klipster (2025 - now)
Building an AI-enriched video studio and automation platform for an early-stage Proptech startup, on Cloudflare Workers, Containers, D1, R2, and Queues.
Dockery Labs (2025 - now)
My personal R&D space for building and experimenting with new ideas.
Teaching Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education (2025)
Teaching and learning through “Vibe Coding,” a module exploring generative AI as a creative partner in programming.
Recurse Center (2025)
Took a sabbatical to deepen my coding practice across multiple languages and frameworks, with a focus on flow - my open-source developer automation platform.
Principal Software Engineer at CarGurus (2022-2025)
Built Kubernetes controllers, deployment pipelines, and developer tools (like Mach5) used by engineering teams across the entire product development organization.
Kubernetes Networking at solo.io (2021-2022)
Worked on open-source release pipelines and Kubernetes controllers for Istio service mesh and Envoy-based API gateway technologies.
EdTech Data Platform at Panorama Education (2018-2021)
Built and optimized ETL pipelines that transform school data into actionable insights for improving student outcomes.
Also
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), 2024. B.S. in Computer Science and Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
