Available for select fractional & consulting work

Engineering leadership
that still ships.

I help early-stage and growth companies turn ambitious ideas into dependable products—especially where AI agents, SaaS architecture, and real-world operations meet.

20+years building software
AI → Prodagents, tools & guardrails
Pittsburghworking across time zones
Jon Worek in Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver, BC · Web Summit 2025
CURRENT FOCUS Agentic products MCP & tool systems Engineering leverage

01 / What I do

I bring the strategic judgment of a VP, the systems thinking of an architect, and the practical momentum of a senior engineer.

02

Fractional leadership

Create clarity, then build momentum.

Technical strategy, roadmaps, hiring and mentorship, delivery risk, architecture reviews, and the operating habits that help teams do their best work.

03

Modernization

Evolve the system without stopping the business.

Pragmatic modernization of legacy products, cloud infrastructure, data models, deployment workflows, and full-stack applications.

Next.js✦React✦Node.js✦Ruby on Rails✦PostgreSQL✦AWS✦Google Cloud✦Terraform✦Next.js✦React

02 / Recent work

Deep enough to build.
Broad enough to lead.

My work sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and the realities of running software in production.

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2026—NowFractional

VP of Engineering · Novela

Architecting Gemini-powered agent workflows on Google Cloud; designing MCP tools, persistent context, approval-gated actions, and secure data boundaries while guiding engineering and product strategy.

2024—NowAdvisor

Technical Advisor · Mobile Nom

Guiding product stability and maintainability, advising on agentic development practices, and creating a modern frontend path for a legacy Rails API.

2023—NowIndependent

Jon Worek Technology

Helping companies deliver AI-enabled products, modernize applications, strengthen cloud and DevOps practices, and improve engineering execution.

2019—2023Leadership

Engineering leadership · UserTesting

Led teams across infrastructure, internal tools, and customer technology; owned roadmap, compliance, incident response, and multi-million-dollar cloud cost oversight.

03 / How I work

01

Find the constraint

Start with the business outcome and identify what is actually slowing progress: product ambiguity, technical risk, team structure, or delivery mechanics.

02

Make the path legible

Turn complexity into a plan people can understand, challenge, and execute—without pretending uncertainty does not exist.

03

Build alongside the team

Stay close to the code and the customer. Good technical leadership should produce working software, stronger judgment, and fewer surprises.

04 / Field notes

Thinking in public.

Agentic engineering

My experiences with agentic coding

How software work changes when agents can read the docs, edit the code, run the tests, and follow the work all the way to a pull request.

Infrastructure

Setting up a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner

A practical guide to running CI workloads on an Ubuntu VM with Hyper-V, Multipass, and Docker.

05 / Beyond the work

Curious by default.

Outside of software, I’m usually playing guitar, practicing martial arts, studying French, working on a home-improvement project, or staying active through running, yoga, and weight training. Those pursuits keep me learning—and remind me that patient, deliberate practice compounds.

Have a consequential build ahead?

Let’s make the complex
work in practice.

jworek@gmail.com

Fractional leadership · Technical advising
AI product development · Consulting