Solo founder • Data Engineer • Startup Mentor
Hi — I'm Jonathan. I build reliable data systems, analytics, and product integrations that help startups turn data into growth. I split my time between building my own startup, mentoring founders, and designing scalable ETL & analytics platforms for startups.
- Website: https://joncrawford.com
- X: https://x.com/joncrawford
- GitHub: https://github.com/JonCrawford
- Lead data engineering and analytics for early-stage products
- Architect ETL and analytics workflows (DBT, Snowflake)
- Build APIs and backend systems (Ruby on Rails)
- Mentor founders on product, growth, and data-driven decision making
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL & data modeling
- DBT (data transformations)
- ETL pipelines & orchestration
- Snowflake (data warehousing)
- APIs & integration engineering
- Shopify & marketing-data pipelines
- Data analytics & instrumentation
- Move fast, iterate on data: validate assumptions with quick analytics and lightweight instrumentation.
- Keep data pipelines simple, testable, and observable.
- Ship product features with analytics baked in so product + growth decisions are measurable.
- Mentor with a founder-first mindset: practical, action-oriented, and metrics-driven.
- Open to mentoring, advising, and short-term contracts focused on data platforms, analytics, or product integrations.
- Reach out on X (https://x.com/joncrawford) or via my website (https://joncrawford.com).