Gideon Jones
Staff Platform Engineer
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGideon Jones is a Staff Platform Engineer based in Leeds with 11 years of experience building resilient web platforms and serverless cloud systems. He has progressed through technical roles at DAZN, focusing on platform engineering for content and developer experience (CoDX), and has deep hands-on experience with Node/TypeScript APIs, GraphQL/REST, AWS serverless services, Terraform, and Docker pipelines. Gideon combines backend systems design—high-throughput data pipelines and sitemap/auditing crawlers—with front-end React work and operational ownership using monitoring and incident tooling. His background includes developing low-latency, cached middleware for sports data and offline-capable electron apps, showing a knack for pragmatic engineering across diverse domains. Colleagues describe him as someone who takes end-to-end responsibility—designing, shipping, and maintaining systems—while bridging product and infrastructure needs.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Graphics Vision & Games, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Graphics Vision & Games at University of Wales, Aberystwyth
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
whenever10
terraform10
terraform-module10
typescript10
dts10
package10
terraform-provider10
aws10
angularjs-service10
monorepo9
twitter-bootstrap9
typescript-definitions9
axios9
npm9
lerna9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GideonPARANOID/gideonparanoid
Mar 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 9 months
GideonPARANOID/olandroid
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:194 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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