Jonathan Gibbons
Self Employed
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Gibbons is a retired Principal Member of Technical Staff who led the Java SE Language Tools team and has spent decades building the infrastructure that makes Java reliable and testable. He designed and implemented Sun's JavaTest harness used for J2ME/J2SE/J2EE conformance testing, authored the Contract interface-definition tools (including assertion-based contracts for automated testing) for the Spring project, and rewrote javap while producing a classfile library used to validate javac output. An active OpenJDK contributor, his commits have improved javadoc and multiple core JDK modules, helping keep the platform robust. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge and a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and is based in Mountain View, California.
18 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at University of OxfordPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (8)
javas10
javadoc10
java10
documentation9
maven6
java-module6
unicode6
maven-javadoc-plugin6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openjdk/jdk
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
JDK main-line development https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1597 reviews, 13 commits, 248 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan's commits primarily focus on enhancements and maintenance within the Java codebase. They are responsible for adding features and fixing bugs for javadoc tool and core java code. The contributions include code and documentation, and they have contributed to several modules of the JDK, making it more robust and reliable. The commits demonstrate expertise in Java and the use of various Java libraries.
openjdkjavajvmjdk
jonathan-gibbons/jtreg
Jan 2021 - Sep 2024
Read-only mirror of https://hg.openjdk.java.net/code-tools/jtreg/
Contributions:64 pushes, 152 branches in 3 years 8 months
code-toolsopenjdk-javaopenjdkjavajava-net
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