/ Urbanix LLC
/ Technology Consultation & SaaS Development
/ Est. — Independent practice

Springfield · Chicago · Dallas
15+ yrs / 5 industries

Jon Urbanski № 01

Technology
Executive &
Consultant

Fifteen-plus years leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud architecture, and platform engineering across financial services, education, and research organizations.

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By the numbers

The record

15+Years in technology leadershiptenure

5Industries served end-to-endbreadth

20K+Users & endpoints under managementscale

2Graduate degrees — MBA & MS Computer Sciencecredentials

14K+School districts on the ERateHQ platformreach

100+Projects delivered, shipped, and operatedoutput

Live from the fleet – products in production – calls answered by AI – texts processed – open critical security findings

Practice

Six disciplines

01 Education Technology K-12 and higher-ed platforms, E-Rate compliance, and district infrastructure built to FERPA standards for thousands of users. ↗ 02 FinTech & Capital Markets Low-latency trading infrastructure, market-data systems, and resilient engineering for regulated financial environments. ↗ 03 Cloud Architecture Multi-cloud design on AWS and Azure — containerization, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, cost-optimized HA systems. ↗ 04 Infrastructure Engineering Network design, virtualization, identity & access, monitoring, and hardened hybrid environments built to stay up. ↗ 05 AI, LLM & Research Platforms Applied AI and LLM systems, data pipelines, and research computing — from GPU infrastructure to production inference. ↗ 06 Graphic & Game Development Interactive media, real-time graphics, and original game development through the PandaRays Studio venture. ↗

The firm

Urbanix LLC

Based in Springfield, Illinois and serving clients nationwide, Urbanix LLC builds enterprise-grade technology for non-profit and for-profit organizations alike — work that holds up under audit and at scale.

Every engagement is grounded in security, compliance, and engineering discipline. The clients span K-12 districts and universities to financial-services firms and SaaS startups — different problems, the same standard of rigor.

Springfield, IL — serving clients nationwide

Security & Compliance

FERPAHSTSTLS 1.2+SOC 2

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAzureDockerKubernetes

Platform Engineering

PythonReactTypeScriptPostgreSQLFastAPI

Clients

K-12 DistrictsUniversitiesFinancial ServicesSaaS Startups

Ventures

Built & operated

E-Rate funding & compliance for 14K+ districts eratehq.com ↗

WhatE-Rate funding intelligence platform. Tracks FCC Form 470/471 filings, funding commitments, and deadlines for every public school district in the country. StackFastAPI · PostgreSQL · React · AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront) · nightly USAC data ingestion StatusIn production. 14K+ districts indexed, live funding-year data, automated compliance alerts.

Game development & interactive media studio pandarays.com ↗

WhatIndependent game and interactive media studio. Original titles and contract interactive work. StackUnity · C# · Blender · AWS static delivery StatusActive studio. Titles in development; portfolio at pandarays.com.

Integration & middleware for enterprise systems systembridges.com ↗

WhatMulti-tenant operations platform for small business: scheduling, time clock, dashboards, and per-tenant branded consoles (restaurants, construction, hospitality, real estate). StackFastAPI · PostgreSQL · per-tenant CloudFront subdomains · AI assistants per tenant StatusIn production with live customer tenants, including restaurant operations at BarrelVine.

AI automation overlay for freight brokerage go2ai.us ↗

WhatAI lens over a freight brokerage's existing systems: every inbound email classified, every load scored and tracked, lanes priced, alerts auto-resolved, plus a phone-based AI agent for drivers and carriers. StackFastAPI · PostgreSQL · Claude (Haiku) · Twilio + Deepgram voice · Gmail API pipeline StatusIn production at a Chicago freight brokerage: live load board, email triage queue, voice agent, daily AI briefings.

Trajectory

Director-level, 15 yrs

Most Recent[ 04 / 04 ]

Director, Infrastructure Engineering

Financial Services

Led infrastructure and platform engineering for a regulated capital-markets environment — resilient systems, security posture, and cloud strategy across the organization.

Prior[ 03 / 04 ]

Director, Engineering

National Research Institution

Directed engineering for research computing platforms, data infrastructure, and applied AI/LLM systems supporting large-scale scientific work.

Prior[ 02 / 04 ]

Director of Technology

K-12 Districts

Owned district-wide technology strategy and operations — 20K+ users and endpoints, E-Rate funding, FERPA compliance, and modern classroom infrastructure.

Foundation[ 01 / 04 ]

Software Engineer & Consultant

Independent / Multiple Clients

Built full-stack platforms, custom software, and integrations for clients across industries — the hands-on engineering foundation behind every later leadership role.

Education

Business & computer science

Master of Business Administration

MBA

Penn State University

Master of Science

MS, Computer Science

DePaul University

Bachelor of Science

BS, Computer Science
+ Economics

Northeastern Illinois University

Get in touch

Direct

Let's build something resilient.

Emailinfo@uixllc.com↗ Phone(224) 808-3330↗ LinkedInin/jonathanurbanski↗

● Chicago, IL ● Springfield, IL ● Dallas, TX