Colin Jones
Software Engineer at Stripe
Mundelein, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolColin Jones is a seasoned software engineer and former CTO with 17 years of experience delivering reliable, secure systems across startups and consulting engagements. Currently at Stripe, he focuses on reliability tooling and incident response, blending Go, Ruby/Sorbet, TypeScript, and observability practices. He’s known for quickly building domain expertise and tackling performance, security, and DevOps challenges hands-on—from refactoring build tools like Leiningen to improving Clojure REPLs and contributing educational Clojure koans. At 8th Light he drove architecture, hiring, and security programs while returning to craft work across Go, Elixir, Python, and cloud infra. His background in music and teaching surfaces in his mentorship style and disciplined approach to craft and communication. Pragmatic and curious, he prefers shipping resilient systems and avoiding bugs more than pontificating about them.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaB.Mus., Musical Arts, Mathematics, B.Mus., Musical Arts, Mathematics at Vanderbilt University
Stackoverflow
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clojure
top-5%
Github Skills (33)
clojure-cli10
console10
testing10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
java10
clojure10
javas10
console-application10
repr10
nrepl10
replit10
build-tools10
functional-programming10
emulation10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
functional-koans/clojure-koans
Jan 2011 - Dec 2018
A set of exercises for learning Clojure
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 148 commits, 38 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the Clojure koans project, adding new exercises and content related to Clojure language concepts. Their work focused on introducing topics like maps, functions, conditionals, higher-order functions, recursion, and sequence comprehensions, and Java interop. The user also made enhancements to code and documentation.
clojureclojurescript
jline/jline2
Jan 2012 - Feb 2015
Jline 2.x
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the `jline2` project by fixing bugs and enhancing the console reader functionality. They addressed issues related to resource lookup, completion list generation, and history entry handling. Further contributions involved improvements to the application's usability and stability, including preventing garbage characters, supporting blink-matching-paren functionality, and handling unsupported terminal operations.
phpjline2-x
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