# Experience

Resume and work history for Jonathan Porter – startups, product leadership, full-stack engineering, and supply chain technology across multiple companies and industries.

I have started multiple companies in addition to working at many great companies, including startups and more established firms. And this is just the beginning.

## Work history

### CorgiMaps — Founder, Head of Product & Engineering

May 2026 - present

CorgiMaps automatically enables a brand to sell via agentic and AI channels by connecting existing supply chain and commerce systems with ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, and all other AI chatbots

- Your customers are searching for your products on ChatGPT and Gemini right now. What are they seeing?
- CorgiMaps gets brands ready to sell on AI in 5 minutes, with no changes to fulfillment operations.
- And unlike AI scraping your site and guessing at your data, agentic protocols mean you control exactly what gets shown and sold.
- Your messaging, your pricing, your inventory availability. Your brand shows up how you want it to.

Technologies: NextJS, FastAPI, FastMCP, Supabase, AWS

### Porter Software — Embedded CPTO

Mar 2018 - present

Custom software design and development, specializing in niche and highly technical industries like supply chain, real estate, and tax/accounting.

- I work with clients ranging from startups to large enterprises, architecting and building agentic AI automations and bespoke software products focusing on supply chain, logistics, finance, healthcare, and other technical, specialized industries.
- I blend business strategy and technical development, leading efforts in both requirements discovery and user experience design, as well as solution architecture and agentic software engineering.
- I leverage the latest in agentic AI development processes to achieve previously impossible timelines, often delivering production-ready solutions in just weeks.
- I have a track record of jumping into multiple industries with no prior experience, quickly learning vertical-specific requirements to create solutions specific to each use case.

#### Bespoke products created for previous clients:

- ERP for grocery and foodservice customers
- Warehouse and inventory management system for convenience stores
- Deferred tax modeling system for regulated utility companies
- Tax basis balance sheet automation solution
- Real estate development financial assessment system
- Medical device inventory tracking solution
- Warehouse management data management and migration tool
- Travel planning and trip management solution
- AI-based, integrated CRM and time/expense management system
- Public websites for customers across a wide variety of industries

Technologies: ReactJS, NextJS, AngularJS, FastAPI, Flask, FastMCP, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Oracle PL/SQL, GCP, AWS, Webflow

### Lucasys — Director of Product

Mar 2025 - May 2026

A technology startup focused on developing tax and accounting SaaS solutions for regulated utility companies.

- Responsible for both product strategy and execution of the PorterLogic platform as well as Lucasys' core utility finance products.
- Led and collaborated with a global team of 20+ subject matter experts and software developers to bring to life value-creating products for customers.
- Delivered multiple production-ready products on short, strict timelines to achieve customer objectives.
- Accelerated AI adoption through intelligent process automation as well as by leading team AI workshops, increasing team productivity and reducing process bottlenecks.

Technologies: ReactJS, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, AWS

### PorterLogic (acquired by Lucasys) — Founder & CEO/CPTO

Nov 2020 - May 2026

Acquired.

Supply chain operations platform built on a proprietary composable workflow engine, filling gaps from warehousing and inventory to procurement, orders, and more.

- Architected and built the entire PorterLogic platform from the ground up, including proprietary composable workflow engine and supply chain operations platform.
- Directed product strategy and engineering team, plus assisted in various capacities across customer success and sales engineering.
- Scaled application to successfully process more than 13M transactions per month, with 100% uptime and zero security incidents.
- Led team of more than a dozen, including interviewing and hiring as well as people management.
- Headed fundraising efforts and successfully raised $1M in venture capital, and subsequently led the board of directors.
- Followed lean startup strategy from day one, constantly conducting customer discovery and learning/iterating based on customer feedback.

#### Awards our team won:

- SupplyTech Breakthrough Startup of the Year (2024)
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top Supply Chain Projects (2024)
- SupplyTech Breakthrough Startup of the Year (2023)
- Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top Tech Startup (2023)
- Atlanta Startup Awards Scrappiest Startup (2022)
- Atlanta Startup Awards Best B2B Startup Finalist (2023)
- Venture Atlanta Showcase (2022)
- ATDC Accelerate (2022)

#### Individual recognition:

- Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pro to Know (2024)
- CSCMP Emerging Leader (2023)

Technologies: ReactJS, Flask, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, GCP, Kubernetes/GKE

### Lucasys — Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2020 - Sep 2022

A technology startup focused on developing tax and accounting SaaS solutions for regulated utility companies.

- Full-stack engineer responsible for design and development of multiple software products, from user stories and UX design, to engineering, deployment, and testing of solutions.
- Collaborated with senior leadership team for functional requirement gathering and design, working iteratively to deliver products that effectively met customer needs.
- Consistently met development timelines and operated autonomously with weekly status reporting, able to deliver results without the need for daily oversight.

Technologies: ReactJS, Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, AWS

### Spinnaker SCA — Senior Consultant / Software Engineer, Customer Solutions

Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

Supply chain technology startup, specializing in design, execution, and development of enterprise warehouse management systems and supply chain solutions.

- Led client-side efforts for two Manhattan WMS implementations, including design and development of 10+ custom system enhancements for a $3.4B international apparel retailer.
- Architected and built software tools for both internal and external clients, including analytics visualization application and test data creation tool, automating manual processes and reducing human effort in certain tasks by more than 90%.
- Engineered advanced SQL queries and data transformations to achieve customer reporting requirements and deliver complex insights.

Technologies: ReactJS, Python/Django, PostgreSQL, Oracle PL/SQL, GCP

### AnswerRocket — Senior Consultant, Customer Solutions

Sept 2017 - Mar 2018

Data analytics and visualization platform leveraging AI and NLP to enable intelligent insights and faster decisions.

- Responsible for both sales engineering (prospect demos, proof of concepts/POCs) and customer onboarding (solution architecture, data lake design) for AnswerRocket’s business intelligence and analytics platform.
- Delivered more than 20 POCs to prospective customers that drove multiple signed contracts (including a $2.4B pharmaceutical client), typically delivered in <1 week as part of the sales process.
- Architected 8+ data lakes to allow customers to achieve actionable insights, including full ETL pipeline development using advanced SQL and Python.
- Optimized client delivery processes and reduced turnaround time from 3-5 days to <2 hours.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, Python, Amazon Redshift, AWS

### Manhattan Associates — Lead Consultant, Warehouse Management

June 2015 - Aug 2017

Market leading vendor of supply chain software, building technology solutions that solve the most complex business problems in warehousing, inventory and omnichannel.

- Led multiple 3-5 person teams on several enterprise WMS implementations, including for one of Manhattan’s largest accounts, a $163B pharmaceutical distributor with more than 20 warehouses.
- Architected more than 25 software enhancements and system modifications, designing client-specific logic and coordinating between multiple teams to ensure successful delivery.
- Expanded beyond warehouse management and gained expertise in system integrations to enable faster client implementations with less back-and-forth between teams.

### Bosch — Industrial Engineer Co-op

Aug 2011 - Aug 2013

Global supplier goods and services, with the Charleston automotive plant specializing in manufacturing fuel injectors and anti-lock brake systems.

- Worked 4 internship/co-op semesters in the industrial engineering department at Bosch's North Charleston automotive manufacturing facility.
- Supported production teams with material flow optimizations, engineered labor standards, and ergonomic process design to improve manufacturing efficiency and drive throughput.
- Owned multiple projects and collaborated with department leaders to achieve outcomes, presenting results to senior plant leadership.

### Porter Enterprises — Entrepreneur

Jun 2007 - May 2015

Part-time side business throughout high school and college, working with local real estate agents to build websites and implementing programs to increase traffic to their listings.

- Started in high school and continuing through college, built websites and created marketing collateral for real estate agents and brokers, helping increase traffic to listings and driving sales.
- Managed technology related to multiple marketing launches, including web development and email campaigns.

## Education

### Georgia Institute of Technology

BS Industrial & Systems Engineering, Minor in Engineering & Business

Atlanta, GA · Aug 2010 - May 2015

- GPA 3.8/4.0
- Highest honors
- ISyE Senior Design Finalist

### St. Pius X High School

Atlanta, GA · Aug 2006 - May 2010

- GPA 95.8/100
- 7x Principal's List, 1x Dean's List
- Honor Council member

### Arbor Montessori School

Atlanta, GA · Aug 2004 - May 2006

### Northwoods Montessori School

Atlanta, GA · Aug 1996 - May 2004