Jon Chester

“I was lucky to work with Jon at Facebook on the Commerce Manager product. Jon looked after developing our long-term vision for our seller storefront and inventory management tools. For example, we had multiple organizations within Facebook that had different visions to build the ideal product for our business, advertising, and commerce users. Jon worked with leads across these various organizations and disciplines (engineering, design, research, etc...), he drove alignment across the teams, and he presented proposals and options for a long term vision for our seller tools. At the same time he made strong contributions to the code base, he demonstrated a desire to grow and understand the technologies and APIs we used, and he gave back to other engineers such as myself through mentoring and high quality code review feedback. One project that we worked on together was replacing the routing framework used on the client-side of the Commerce Manager application while keeping the current version online without impacting our existing users. I highly recommend Jon and would be happy to have the opportunity to work with him again in the future.”

“Jon was one of the first engineers I engaged with in Facebook, who was an in-house expert on javascript and front-end technologies. I was impressed with his down-to-Earth personality and humility while being a great coach who helped me ramp up as well as always delivered positive and constructive feedback as an ally. Over years, I really enjoyed my interactions. He was a true listener, compassionate human being as well as demonstrated an acute product sense, reflective of how he would push for simplicity, keeping users at center of all work and prioritize ruthlessly. I really hope I get an opportunity to work with Jon again! Jon will be an amazing leader and I have no doubt he will continue to inspire everyone around him, just like he has influenced me. Thank you Jon :)”