Jason Briggs
Director, Lead Developer at UBS
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJason Briggs is a seasoned software leader and director with 16 years of experience delivering back-end systems and architecture from London. As UBS's Lead Developer since 2010, he combines hands-on protocol and integration work with technical leadership across large enterprise environments. An active open-source maintainer, he authored and continues to evolve stomp.py, a widely used Python STOMP client, and wrote the popular Python for Kids, demonstrating an ability to teach and simplify complex concepts. His strengths lie in protocol-level engineering, reliable messaging integrations, and translating low-level technical detail into robust production solutions. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving, a focus on correctness under load, and a talent for making developer tooling more approachable.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (2)
python10
unit-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jasonrbriggs/stomp.py
Aug 2009 - Sep 2022
“stomp.py” is a Python client library for accessing messaging servers (such as ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ) using the STOMP protocol (versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2). It can also be run as a standalone, command-line client for testing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 552 commits, 234 PRs in 13 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason implemented new features for the stomp.py client library, focusing on expanding its functionality and fixing bugs. The commits introduce features such as sending and receiving messages, adding support for headers with special characters, and incorporating receipt confirmations for disconnects. Their work primarily involved modifications to the core client functionality, suggesting a focus on back-end development and protocol implementation.
pythonclient-libraryactivemqtestingstandalone
jasonrbriggs/proton
Feb 2013 - Oct 2020
Proton is a simple, "code-less" engine for xml/xhtml templates. Code-less, because it uses 3 types of ID (attribute) in a template file, rather than snippets of code — this moves the complexity out of the template and into the application.
Contributions:83 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 7 years 9 months
template-enginetemplatepythoncomplexitymoves
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