Jon Thies

Passport Online

Passport is the technology platform behind Ben Thompson's Stratechery and the Stratechery Plus Bundle (Stratechery, Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering and Greatest of All Talk).

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We continue to develop and deploy enhancements to the platform and have many exciting new features in the pipeline.

Model Rocket

Having operated as CTO and Architect from startups to large enterprise, we identified a need for a new model of software development. We provide the enthusiasm of a startup along with the experience and structure of a veteran software team. At ModelRocket we developed a methodology for quickly developing and deploying Full Stack applications in Cloud and Cloud Native environments such as AWS, GCP, Azure and Kubernetes. At ModelRocket we have brought several of our clients products to market including:

• An Intelligent IoT Platform specifically tailored for environmental (air, water, soil) monitoring. We leveraged my background in Machine Learning, Cloud Infrastructure (using AWS) and Data Science to provide a toolset for agronomic analysis.

• Advanced Human Body Measurement Platform using 3d sensors and mobile devices applied to Medicine, Physical Therapy, and Athletic Wear. This heavily mathematical product combines a wide array of technologies from 3d visualization, cloud based computations, microservices, and machine learning.

• Clinical Trial Toolkit – A regulatory document management system used by universities and pharmaceutical companies to facilitate clinical studies.

• Port several hosted SAAS applications from traditional datacenter applications to server-less architecture on AWS.

QWASI Inc.

At QWASI I lead a team of engineers in building a highly scalable, flexible, intelligent cloud based customer engagement and analytics platform. We processed tens of millions of transactions a daily across a variety of channels including application events, SMS, email, voice, Twitter and push notifications. We serviced dozens of major Retail, Finance, Healthcare, and Hospitality customers that have global deployments of the platform. We built smooth integrations with other systems and therefore our platform was used in a variety of use cases that even surprised us at times. The QWASI platform was named a Top Mobile Messaging Vendor by Forrester.

QWASI's platform is/was used globally by customers such as TD Ameritrade, Bank of America, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, QVC, Marriott and Starwood Hotels, Harvy Nichols Western Union, Domino’s, Krispy Kreme, Syniverse as well as thousands of medium and small businesses.

Citrix Systems

The Citrix Access Gateway became one of the worlds most widely deployed enterprise VPNs. At Citrix I worked in the Advanced Products Group developing prototypes and researching new product concepts for integration into many of the Citrix product lines. I also was a part of the Citrix Patent Comittee. Eventually I got the itch to launch another startup and started incubating Qwasi in my spare time, once we grew the revenue enough to go full time, I left Citrix and officially dove into Qwasi full time.

Net6

I co-founded Net6 with a few of my collegeus and friends from Lockheed. At Net6 we developed the worlds first Hybrid-VPN which lead us to be acquired by Citrix Systems – which became the Citrix Access Gateway.

CTNY

I spent a short period of time working as a Lead Developer at CTNY (Creative Technologies New York). This really was a stop gap position that I held after finishing my graduate work at Penn to pay the bills while we prepared to launch Net6.

University of Pennslyvania