Jon Labaj

About Jon Labaj

With extensive professional experience consulting across many diverse industries, I gained a deep understanding of how technology has become a trusted partner in all aspects of life. Early on, I took a risk by experiencing the outsourcing model from a perspective most engineers would only dream about: living and working throughout India at one of the world\'s largest software firms.I continued my commitment to maintaining high adaptability and broad technical skills by transitioning from corporate consulting to high impact, leading-edge technology startups. After many years of scrappy and highly impactful engagements in the startup world, I was hungry for exponential growth and one of the world’s most innovative companies took notice. I was humbled and grateful to join Google in 2019. Google combines the agility of the startup world with strong transparency and leadership at the corporate level. Our teams are diverse, collaborative, and incredibly intelligent. The one aspect which remains constant throughout these vast and varying opportunities is my commitment to helping others-to constantly striving to enable success at every level and every step of the way. I have come a long way in my development, but as any committed professional knows: the work is never quite done.Key skills: Developing highly scalable code optimized for efficiency, concurrency, and maintainability. Architectural design experience focused on object oriented programming, microservices across many platforms and languages. Deep technical research and analytical skills guided by process management and optimization using agile and continuous integration (CI) principles. Exceptional interpersonal skills focused on building strong relationships with all stakeholders.

Experience

1. Tech Lead

   Google

   Aug 2023 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Within the Users and Products (gUP) Engineering org at Google, I am the tech lead for a critical set of our content workflow systems. Deployed across diverse internal and Google Cloud based infrastructure, these projects orchestrate changes to Google support surfaces viewed by billions of users every day.My work involves collaborating across many cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain web-based software. I constantly iterate technical roadmaps to evolving user first business objectives, while also ensuring robust code quality and effective management of resources.I have a proven track record of delivering complex engineering solutions that meet stringent performance, security, and scalability requirements. My experience includes building end to end integrations between 1P and 3P systems across many different tech stacks. I manage dev ops and performance tuning of several Google Kubernetes Engine based components. As a skilled data engineer, I leverage Gemini and AI, along with more traditional approaches, to quickly solve analytical use cases and drive informed business decisions.Whatever the challenge may be, I strive every day to make information about Google products universally accessible and useful to our users.

Education

• Michigan State University

  Bachelors, Computer Science, Criminal Justice

  2003 — 2007