Greg Jones
Senior Engineer at Spotify
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Jones is a senior software engineer based in Barcelona with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, production-grade backend systems and developer platforms. He has designed and operated cloud-native services at companies like Spotify, Adevinta and Schibsted, working across Java/Scala ecosystems, Kubernetes, AWS, and data pipelines while balancing SOX-compliant finance systems and high-throughput event processing. Greg combines platform thinking—shipping developer-focused infrastructure and observability—with practical service ownership, including on-call duties and continuous deployment. He also contributes to open source tooling for HTTP caching (httpcache), bringing attention to RFC-correct caching, persistent disk-backed stores, and nuanced header handling. With a First-class Computer Science degree from Warwick, he pairs deep technical breadth with a track record of improving engineering productivity and shipping reliable systems at scale.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, First (hons), Computer Science, Computer Science, First (hons) at University of Warwick
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
caching10
algorithms10
transport10
http10
go10
disk-cache10
web-cache10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
testing8
task-queue6
pagination6
jquery6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gregjones/httpcache
Dec 2012 - Jun 2019
A Transport for http.Client that will cache responses according to the HTTP RFC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 42 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributed to the `httpcache` package, focusing on implementing and improving caching mechanisms. They fixed logic errors, added a persistent cache implementation using `diskv`, and enhanced the cache's functionality. The user also addressed issues related to handling of headers, specifically `Vary` and `Expires`, and made improvements related to cache freshness.
deno-deployhttp-headerlruhttp3http-client
gregjones/golastfm
Nov 2012 - May 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 1 year 6 months
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