Jonah Perry
About Jonah Perry
Jonah Perry is the founder of Memfault, a company providing an end-to-end observability platform for connected devices, and has previously held senior engineering roles at Oculus and Fitbit.
Jonah Perry’s Role at Memfault
Jonah Perry is the Founder of Memfault, a company established in 2018 with the collaboration of colleagues from Pebble. At Memfault, he spearheaded the groundbreaking creation of the first end-to-end observability platform for connected devices. His work involves equipping firmware engineers with the same level of sophisticated tools available to software engineers working in cloud environments. The Memfault platform aids IoT device developers in continuous device monitoring, debugging firmware issues, and deploying OTA updates.
Previous Experience in the Tech Industry
Before founding Memfault, Jonah Perry accumulated valuable industry experience working with leading technology companies. He worked as a Senior Business Development Representative at Pebble, where he focused on crash reporting, cloud-based software delivery, and performance monitoring infrastructure. Perry also led the embedded software team at Oculus and held a senior engineering position at Fitbit. These roles helped him gain a deep understanding of the challenges and needs within the field of IoT and firmware engineering.
Memfault’s Partnership with Nordic Semiconductor
Jonah Perry played a crucial role in establishing a partnership between Memfault and Nordic Semiconductor. This partnership aims to provide Nordic customers free access to all features available on the Memfault platform. The integration enables developers working with Nordic products to benefit from automatic bug triage, root cause analysis with hard data, and efficient issue management through customizable dashboards and real-time metric data visibility.
Collaboration with Infineon Technologies
Jonah Perry also led Memfault's collaboration with Infineon Technologies. This partnership offers diagnostic capabilities, device observability, and remote updating features of the Memfault platform to developers working on Infineon's ARM-based microprocessors. This collaboration is part of Memfault's broader mission to make software the most reliable part of the IoT ecosystem, providing firmware engineers with powerful tools to continuously improve device performance and reliability.
Key Features of Memfault Platform
Under Jonah Perry’s leadership, the Memfault platform has introduced several advanced features tailored for IoT device developers. These features include crashiness score calculation, which enables engineers to assess device stability, customizable dashboards for tailored metric views, and new metric charts to visualize real-time data. The platform also provides precise alert configurations to help engineers respond to issues promptly, making the overall process of managing and debugging firmware more efficient and reliable.