Chris Jones
Engineering Manager at Red Hat
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Jones is an experienced engineering manager with 19 years building and leading teams focused on cloud, OpenStack, and site reliability, currently managing engineering at Red Hat from London. He combines hands-on software engineering chops—particularly in Python, Ansible, and high-availability OpenStack systems—with people management and delivery leadership across multi-disciplinary teams. Chris has a strong ops-to-devs background from Canonical and HP/HPE, where he helped found and scale TripleO and ran large CI/Gerrit infrastructures, giving him deep expertise in production-grade automation and testing at scale. He’s also an active open-source contributor to the popular Hammerspoon macOS automation project, adding UI/UX improvements and plugins that reveal a pragmatic, user-focused approach to tooling. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and improving developer workflows, he brings both technical depth and a track record of mentoring engineers through complex infrastructure challenges.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Brighton Collegenone, Electronic Engineering, none, Electronic Engineering at University of SurreyBEng, Software Engineering, BEng, Software Engineering at University of Brighton
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
api-design10
gui-programming10
plugin-development10
ui-design10
lua10
uid10
hammerspoon10
front-end-development10
documentation9
computer-engineering8
objective-c8
safari-extension6
macos6
safari-content-blocker6
iphone6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
Oct 2014 - Dec 2022
Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (macOS Automation & UI)
Software Engineer (macOS Automation & UI)Contributions:88 releases, 36 reviews, 2747 commits in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on the Hammerspoon project, a macOS desktop automation tool built on Lua. Their contributions focused on enhancing the usability and functionality of the UI by adding features such as a placeholder text to chooser fields, as well as the functionality to handle keypresses to the menu, to add the possibility of having a "quick click" to items. Additionally, the user implemented new features for the menu items, enhancing the user interaction with the GUI. They also worked on implementing some features and improving code related to the hs.camera class in general.
luamjolnirobjective-cosxdesktop-automation
Hammerspoon/Spoons
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
The official repository of Spoon plugins
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 506 commits, 261 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of various Hammerspoon "Spoon" plugins within the repository. Their contributions encompassed the creation of new plugins such as `MouseCircle`, `Seal`, `Caffeine`, `RoundedCorners`, and `URLDispatcher`. The user also addressed bug fixes and improvements within existing plugins. Additionally, the user was responsible for updating documentation and building the documentation website.
mingw-w64luadubpluginspoons
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