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Jon McGee

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Hi, I'm Jon – lifelong learner, entrepreneur, software engineer and product enthusiast. My passion is bringing people together through technology.

Welcome to my personal blog, an experimental project to explore and share topics I'm interested in.

If you’d like to connect, feel free to reach out!

Work

My lifelong passion for building software has led me to work with some amazing people and companies on some pretty cool things. If you've used a computer, it's likely you've run my code!

Meta

Meta – Product Manager
Led multiple consumer and business product launches at Meta, including Project Lightspeed, Omnichannel Ads, and AI/ML features in the Facebook/Instagram in-app browser.

Relay

Relay – Co-Founder
My 2nd startup, Relay was the world's first GIF messaging app for iOS/Android. Relay was acquired by Kik, and the GIF technology integrated into the Kik app. (Patent)

Chatroll

Chatroll – Co-Founder
My 1st startup, Chatroll is a SaaS platform for live online events, used by some of the world's largest brands. Pioneered real-time cloud computing before it was a thing.

Amazon

Amazon – Software Engineer, Retail Customer Experience
Created core components of Amazon's product page UX, notably the variation picker (e.g. choosing shoe sizes) and product image viewer. Definitely my most used software! (Patent)

Microsoft

Microsoft – Software Engineer, Windows
Helped bring Windows Design/UX into the modern era. Contributor to the Common Controls library (commctl32.dll) (Patent)

NVIDIA

NVIDIA – Software Engineer Intern
Developed 3D shaders for NVIDIA's groundbreaking Dawn character (believe it or not, NVIDIA was once just a gaming company!)

University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo – B.Math, Computer Science
Learned to think freely and logically. Tl;dr, most everything in software boils down to data & algorithms. And running trains (IYKYK)

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