Ed Jones
Senior Software Entineer at Canva
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Jones is a seasoned senior software engineer and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building web platforms and leading technical teams, currently at Canva after co-founding Humap, a SaaS geospatial storytelling startup. For 13 years he co-owned and ran a successful digital UX and development agency serving clients such as the V&A, BBC and Sony Games, combining product-minded engineering with client-facing leadership. He spans back-end API work and platform architecture—evidenced by maintenance contributions to the Her Ruby ORM—and has a track record of shipping pragmatic, REST-focused integrations. Based in London, he pairs startup CTO experience with agency delivery discipline, and brings an unusual mix of broadcast/IT roots and commercial product scaling to every role.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BEd, BEd at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
orm10
api-design10
rails9
ruby-rails9
faraday7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
remi/her
Sep 2016 - Apr 2018
Her is an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) that maps REST resources to Ruby objects. It is designed to build applications that are powered by a RESTful API instead of a database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to version bumping and adding support for the OPTIONS verb in the `her` library, which is an ORM for RESTful APIs. They also made minor changes such as moving a comment within the API code. Their work involved modifications to core files like `api.rb` and `version.rb`, indicating a focus on API functionality and library maintenance. These contributions likely enhance the library's compatibility and capabilities related to RESTful interactions.
orm-object-relational-mapperapirelationalrailsrestful
rooftopcms/rooftop-rails
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:96 commits, 4 PRs, 72 pushes in 3 years 3 months
ruby-on-railscmsrailsrails-applicationruby
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