Principal Full-stack Engineer & CTO

Jason Ives is a highly experienced full-stack engineer with 25 years of experience in building production software for founders and growing teams. He specializes in Rails, Vue, and React, augmented with AI workflows. He has a strong background in leadership, having spent a decade as CTO at EMEX, where he grew the engineering team from scratch through private equity acquisition. Currently, he operates through Brightform Technology, offering senior-level engineering expertise to founders who require product sense and architectural judgment alongside code output. His past work includes leading frontend architecture for an IoT platform and building a real-time reverse auction platform that drove significant sales. He is seeking freelance/contract work and is best suited for founders with clear ideas and budgets to move fast, offering product direction in addition to engineering.