Jonathan Horak

Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA ◊ Open to: hybrid / remote · travel Phone: +1-512-586-4550 ◊

Summary

Jonathan is a Lead Front End Developer based out of Chicago, specialized in information architecture and accessibility, with care for design. He delivers web applications in React, from prototyping to production, utilizing prompt engineering to quickly iterate and validate requirements.

Software and technologies

Experience

AbbVie

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • remote

App Project Manager

2026⁠–⁠current

  • Partner with Marketing Operations and Technology to triage technical requests, resolve delivery issues and prioritize roadmap initiatives that improve content delivery and application experiences.
  • Translate creative assets into production-ready experiences while maintaining accuracy, consistency and quality.
  • Manage marketing requests end-to-end, coordinating timelines, QA, stakeholder reviews and deployment to ensure efficient, reliable delivery.

Publicis Sapient

  • Chicago, Illinois
  • Austin, Texas
  • remote

Lead Experience Engineer

2012⁠–⁠2025

Wawa
Kiosk
Mentored junior developers while leading development of a React-based desktop application, guiding it from technology selection and early prototyping through production deployment across 800+ terminals. Initialized and maintained core design system, following best practices for usability and accessibility.
Goldman Sachs
Private Wealth Management
Partnered with client’s design director to prototype and test advanced user experiences, effectively and rapidly demonstrating product concepts to stakeholders.
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Intranet
Coordinated with design director to demonstrate product feasibility to the client and led technology selection for production, implementing a cutting-edge integration of React with enterprise intranet. Alongside design team, built interactive styleguide and component library in Storybook.
BlackBerry
Content Management System
Joined team in beta for a multi-year initiative to replatform client’s global internet presence into a consolidated CMS using AEM, supporting 60k+ pages, 4 regions, 30+ countries and 22 languages.

Hill & Knowlton

Austin, Texas

Web Developer

2010–2011

Kasasa

Austin, Texas

Web Developer

2009–2010

Hoover’s

Austin, Texas

Web Production Specialist

2008–2009

TradeMark Media

Austin, Texas

Design Technologist

2006–2007

Visa

Austin, Texas

Web Design and Development Intern

2005

South by Southwest

Austin, Texas

Interactive Intern

2002–2004

Education

The University of Texas

Austin, Texas

Earned junior credit towards a major in Government.
Completed requirements for a minor in Science, Technology and Society.