Gareth Jones is a senior full-stack engineer with 12 years’ experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently leading platform, web and mobile development at Minute Cryptic from Melbourne. He specializes in TypeScript, Next.js and React, but pairs front-end expertise with deep backend skills—SQL tuning, CI/CD, AWS IoT and infrastructure-as-code—gained across startups and product-focused teams. Gareth has led engineering teams and founded a product (Calmly) that combined conversational UI, Postgres-based messaging and AI-driven journaling, demonstrating a knack for shipping pragmatic, user-driven pivots. He helped grow Powerpal to 250k users and delivered automation that cut scheduling work from full-time to hours, showing a bias for operational impact as well as code. Comfortable in small, early-stage teams, he blends hands-on delivery with mentoring and process improvement to raise team quality and velocity. Outside the obvious stack, he’s skilled at designing state machines and asynchronous messaging to bridge real-time frontends with delayed backends.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Newcastle
Contributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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Gareth Jones - Senior Software Engineer at Minute Cryptic