John Grant
Researcher & Founder at IT Jobs Watch
Greater Cheshire West and Chester Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Grant is a software engineer-turned-founder with over two decades of continuous involvement in tech and 11 years of formal experience building IT Jobs Watch, a real-time market intelligence service tracking technology skill demand. He combines hands-on software development, data science and machine learning to turn job market signals into open-access insights that inform hiring, training and workforce planning. Based in Greater Cheshire, he blends academic grounding in computer studies and electrical engineering with pragmatic research into AI, automation and the future of work. Notably, his work focuses on the demand side of the labour market—an angle that surfaces actionable trends rather than just supply-side skills inventories.
11 years of coding experience
BTEC National Diploma, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BTEC National Diploma, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Wirral Metropolitan CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Studies, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Studies at Liverpool John Moores University
Github Skills (57)
openstreetmap10
middleware9
unicorns9
sql9
federated-learning9
golang9
api9
regular-expression9
database9
regex-engine9
driver9
intellij-platform8
rest-api8
python8
go8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
wardley-maps-community/awesome-wardley-maps
Aug 2019 - Sep 2022
Wardley maps community hub. Useful Wardley mapping resources
Contributions:163 commits, 19 PRs, 155 pushes in 3 years 2 months
wardleymapswardley-mappingstrategymappingwardley-maps
maintenancefest/awesome-maintenance
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes in 7 months
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