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Jonathan Norris

Director of Software Engineering, Dynatrace, DevCycle

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Jonathan Norris was co-founder and chief technology officer of DevCycle, the Toronto feature-flag platform spun out of Taplytics, the mobile A/B-testing startup he co-founded and took through Y Combinator's Winter 2014 batch. Dynatrace acquired DevCycle in January 2026; Norris is now a director of software engineering there.

Jonathan hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because of Jonathan’s work at DevCycle, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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What is Jonathan Norris's role at DevCycle?

Y Combinator's company page for DevCycle, checked 2026-09-25, lists him among the 'Active Founders' as 'Jonathan Norris Founder/CTO Co-Founder & CTO @ DevCycle + Taplytics W14.' DevCycle's own blog reported on 2024-03-20 that he holds the title Co-founder and CTO.

How did DevCycle grow out of Taplytics?

A Code Story podcast episode about Norris, published on dev.to on 2024-01-04, says that in Winter 2014 he and his founding team went through Y Combinator and formed Taplytics, then years later spun out DevCycle once they noticed developers cared most about the feature-flagging half of the product.

What does Jonathan Norris do now that DevCycle has been acquired?

OpenFeature's 2026 governance-committee candidates page, in his own words, checked 2026-09-25, says: 'After the acquisition of DevCycle by Dynatrace to build an OpenFeature native feature management platform into their core product, I am now a Director of Software Engineering at Dynatrace helping to lead this effort. Previously Co-Founder & CTO of DevCycle and Taplytics.'

What is Norris's connection to the OpenFeature project?

DevCycle's blog reported on 2024-03-20 that Norris was elected to the OpenFeature Governance Committee at KubeCon Paris 2024. OpenFeature's community-members page, checked 2026-09-25, lists his current term as running February 1, 2026 to January 31, 2028, representing Dynatrace.

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