Jonathon Ready

Program Manager | me@jonready.com

ABOUT

I'm a Program Manager at Microsoft working on Windows Updates. I get excited when a piece of technology can make significant improvements in the lives of customers.

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WORK

Program Manager - Microsoft Corp.
Redmond, Wa

Windows Update, Reverse Update Data Generation
Invented a new way of compressing OS updates resulting in a 40% reduction in update size
Coded the proof-of-concept prototype and obtained leadership buy-in
• Oversaw development of the production quality compression code
• Impact: Projected to save 861 Petabytes of update downloads annually
• Highlighted in Windows 11 Keynote by chief product officer Panos Panay (link)
• Got to the front page (#1 spot) on hackernews with blog post and generated over 80k page reads (blog link)
Other work:
-Worked across teams to deliver re-architecture of multiple update channels
-Managed triage, fix, and delivery of dozens of critical security vulnerabilities

JULY 2019 - CURRENT

Systems Architecture Engineering Intern - Volvo Group
Göteborg Sweden

Vehicle Systems Architecture, Connectivity Platform Provided technical analysis for the integration of vehicle telemetry connectivity into existing vehicle architecture, as well as cloud provider options for vehicle cloud services.

AUGUST 2017 - DECEMBER 2017

Software Engineering Internship - BAE Systems
Nashua, New Hampshire

Electronic Systems, Radar Systems
Wrote Python automation scripts to scrape signal processing library for changes in API calls and regenerate documentation in department of defense requested format

JANUARY 2016 - JUNE 2016


EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Pennsylvania State University
Minor in Mathematics

GRADUATED MAY 2019


PATENTS & SECURITY CLEARANCE

Interim Secret Security Clearance

Granted 09/2018

Inventor U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 63/160,284
Entitled: “REVERSE UPDATE DATA GENERATION”

Filed 03/12/2021


PORTFOLIO

Windows 11 updates are 40% smaller

Chief Product Officer Panos Panay "Windows updates are now 40% smaller". This was caused by my project Reverse Update Data Generation.

invention

Team Founder Penn State UAS

Link To Team Website
I Founded the Penn State Unmanned Aerial Systems Team - an undergraduate engineering team that competed in the 2017, 2018, and 2019 AUVSI Student UAS competition.

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CONTACT

Email
me@jonready.com

Current Location - Seattle, Washington.

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