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Jon Chui
🚀 Founder @ Wonder & Wander Digital. ex-Google📱iOS/Android, ex-Microsoft, 👪 Father of 3, Married 13 ❤️ 💍 Team ADHD
Boulder, United States English, French, Chinesefrom Calgary, Canada
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Jon was very helpful. He gave me great advice on how to achieve product market fit, how to better understand our users and how to offer them tangible value. I really appreciate the time he dedicated to understanding my business and put himself in my shoes. Thanks again Jon!
Juan Sarrado
I highly recommend Jon as a mentor! He was well prepared for our call and brought a truly unique perspective from being an engineer at Google to starting his own company. Whether you're looking to climb the corporate ladder or start the SAAS company of your dreams, schedule a call with Jon! You won't regret it.
Mia Smithson
Jon was instrumental in being able to provide value by seeing our business through the eyes of a customer; he was able to quickly grasp our value proposition and provide much needed advice as a result - based on his Silicon Valley experiences. I appreciate the time he took to check out our services before our call and look forward to speaking with him again in the future. Thanks Jon, 5 stars!
Eddie Eastman
Bio
👋 Howdy friend! Thanks for checking out my GrowthMentor profile! For 10+ years I lived & breathed 📱mobile.. worked on top 10 App Store apps (Google Maps, Gmail, Google search) as well as a bunch that didn't see the light of day. The pressure took it's toll finally & I followed the "burnout track" and took 6 month sabbatical (that would later turn into almost 3 years). My family & I left the bay with 8 suitcases of all our belongings, and i thought tech would only be in my rear view mirror... I exchanged the standup desks & nap pods of silicon valley to serve families in the slums of Philippines & Cambodia. To my utter surprise and delight though, these families were happier than I was. Something was missing? We came back to the mainland & I tried my hand at using tech for good, by working on the "strava for sobriety" app and it was amazing. I was finally helping ppl again! But as w/ many startups, funding fell through... I then went to help a big, well-funded startup who's goal was "tech for good", specifically in non-profit church space. I was so excited! And somehow, in the midst of "strat sums" and super fun budgets I lost my way... I actually kind of lost heart. Enter a wise mentor who asked me: "What if life wasn't a series of problems to be solved, but a story to live?" And I realized, this is what i've always resonated with.. Story... adventure... beauty.... I envision a future where you can bring your full self to work, not just a version that others expect. I realize, some of what i've been looking for is... - A Small & effective team. - 1 Super Clear mission. - Ppl always getting helped Some other core values I've found along the way: 1. Transparency & Vulnerability > Posturing & Faking 2. Take the Mission Seriously <> Do NOT take ourselves too seriously (aka. it's gotta be fun) 3. EQ > IQ 4. Team > Profits Can't wait to see what's next!
Expertise
Idea validation
Have a MIT New Ventures Design Bootcamp Certification. Learned from alot of mistakes ( Inbox by Gmail, 10+ apps for clients that never went anywhere). At WonderAndWander.io, we help clients test out & iterate ideas as fast as possible w/ real users
Product management
As a microsoft PM early in my career, technology/coding to me was simply a means to an end - to build a great PRODUCT that ppl actually use. Great products are a delight to use. They are anchored in solving a clear pain point that i have - and other products just don't full solve it
Technology and tools
With 15+ years of engineering experience from Google -> Startups, I love using tech/tools to make ppl's lives easier. Some ex: - building a flutter ios/android app with push notifications/onesignal, native google & apple signing, doing the entire app store/google play process, marketing, and into production in 3 weeks. (when team estimated 3-6 months)
Toolkit
Intercom
LOVE intercom for talking directly to users, surveying them, and automating flows in the app to make sure users are actually getting the value from your product Did this first as Director of Engineering at Sober Grid, where we used the classic PMF sean ellis introduced, to make sure you have something ppl want: https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit,
Ruby on Rails
I actually have WAY more experience in native mobile land, SWIFT and Objective-C for iOS, Java and Kotlin for Android. Then recently dart for flutter. (but those options weren't in the drop down) ;P But i learned rails when i had to scale out our SoberGrid backend and add support for troll/spam checking (cause we were getting hit hard, with 150+ downloads a day)
Industries
Internet
I'm currently the founder of a digital product/tech agency: wonderandwander.io I also worked 2 years as an IOS engineer @ invokemedia.com (builders of hootsuite, built out 5+ ios/android apps for big clients like men's health, the onion, food network) Then lead a team of mobile engineers on NHL team apps, and Activision's Call of Duty companion apps
Experience
- Built out Thryve.io's first ios/android app so church admins/staff could receive push notifications the moment members text in. (tech: used flutter wrapper, google/apple login, learned responsive web designed, one signal for push notifications) - Mobile Lead on Spaces App - Helping our team ship a great mobile app that helps people w/ personal growth
SaaS
This role was all over the place, which is what i love! It required me to use every part of my brain from engineering, to internal communication, to marketing, product & customer development. The best part is that it all resulted in happier members, who were so excited that we were making changes and communicating to them! - Managed iOS, Android & Rails backend with 170k+ registered users, seeing top engaged users use the app over 10 minutes a day - Overhauled entire engineering org ( backend running in AWS + elasticbeanstalk, rails/puma/nginx , iOS/android apps on bitrise), inheriting code that was nascent for 4 months and unable to deploy, to up and running! - Built customer support team, launched help.sobergrid.com, and streamlined all communication through intercom's CRM. Grew to 80% happy customers - built out first internal wiki using Notion, got company into habbit of taking notes, documenting decisions, etc. - Hired & trained customer success engineer, Android & backend. - Oversaw 3 iOS Updates, 1 Android Update & 5 backend launches - Brought Rails backend CI tests time from 70 min to 25 min
University of the Nations, Kona
Chief Volunteer Sabatical OfficerLed my family of 4 into a non-profit, worldwide adventure. We spent 3 years volunteering for a non-profit to help impoverished countries have the skills, training & basic needs met in some of the most poor places on the planet.
Kukui Corporation
Part-Time Architect/Senior Software Engineer of MobileHelped re-design, launch & build the first Digital Vehicle Inspections app for Kukui Corp, used by mechanics & shop owners to digitize their inspections. iOS link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kukui-dvi/id1281858470?mt=8 - lead the product requirements, spec gathering stage - mentored junior iOS dev & team lead - helped drive architecture decisions: eg. to use MVVM, reactive (RxSwift) UI, backed by persistent Realm database, etc. - built out Continuous Integration framework so every code checkin was backed by functional & UI Tests, instigated code reviews, github issues/driven kanban boards, etc. - recruited new team members to join as needed
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o Android Engineer on Google's Search App, specifically sound search "Ok Google, what song is this". More than doubled the number of countries from 27 to 60 countries, as well as increasing analytics and statistics on how successful we were. This allowed us to start decreasing latency with such things as "Instant Sound Search", and other great features yet to be released publicly. o iOS/Android Engineer on Inbox by Gmail. Sole engineer on Android Wear inbox implementation o iOS Engineer on Google Maps iPhone team focused on continuing to make it awesome. Some stats: o Downloaded over 10 million times in the first 48 hours. o Still Top Free App in Navigation Category in App Store (as of Mar 11, 2013, ~ 3 months after release) o Stayed in Top 10 Free App overall since release (as of Mar 11, 2013 it is 8th) Some quotes: o "In the wake of Apple's Maps problems, Google finally delivers what might be the best option on any smartphone — Android included" - The Verge o "Google Maps is back on the iPhone and will fix everything that is wrong with your life" - Washington Post o "With Google Maps for iPhone Finally Out, It's Now Safe to Upgrade" - The Wall Street Journal o "Google vs. Apple Maps: Total Domination" - Gizmodo
The Startup Digest
Vancouver CuratorThe vancouver startup digest goes out every week to 2000+ subscribers curated w/ the best startup events in Vancouver! The startup digest started in the valley by Chris & Brendan & is now in over 60+ cities around the world
Atimi Software
Team Lead / Senior IOS DeveloperLead a team of 8 devs (5 ios and 3 android) on a multi-million dollar companion app for one of the world's most popular game franchises. To give you an idea of the scale, the title released on xbox & PS3 & sold over 500 million in it's first 24 hours. - Tasks included: architecting app from ground up, coding, mentoring junior devs, task breakdown, estimations, talking w/ clients
Invoke Media
Senior iPhone Developero Drove the vision, development & strategy of Invoke’s world-class mobile products, provided customer-facing consultation & estimates for top-tiered clients, lead & hired first mobile team o In first 8 months, re-built mobile department from ground up, driving launch of 5 iPhone Apps representing over $220,000 in added revenue, managed new iOS hires & trained them o Engineered internal reusable framework: 1) An iCloud-esque framework a year before iCloud launched that cut updates by weeks & allowed for server-driven apps; 2) a Core Data to REST API synchronizer that allowed persistence offline data; 3) A Wireless Testing Framework for clients that shaved testing times from days to hours, speeding up testing times by >2200%!
o Researched, designed & spearheaded a next-generation evaluation engine, decreasing Microsoft Web Service deployment times by over 200%. o Guided a team of over 5 seasoned developers to 100% project completion. o Rewarded by managers & team for delivering a visually stunning final presentations & demo o Revitalized the interns’ social life by creating the 1st Microsoft Interns Soccer League
Dolby Laboratories
Research & Development Engineer Interno Recaptured 3 multi-million dollar accounts with Sony, Sharp, & Toshiba by spearheading the release of a critical Marketing Application. Caught the attention of CEO Bill Jasper. o Completed advanced LED research in less than 1 month, which previously took 4 months
Visiphor Corporation
Software Engineero Implemented nightly automated builds, saving the company over $10,000 per annum o Accelerated software testing 400% by developing the company’s first Software Testing Core