John Iacona
Business Owner at Blocktype
Lampeter, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Iacona is a software engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience who now splits his time between freelance contracting and running Outbloom, a regenerative cut‑flower farm in Lampeter, Wales. He brings deep practical expertise in Ruby, Java, Python, React, and containerized/cloud architectures, having shipped production features and integrations for startups and institutions including Kew and Blocktype. Comfortable moving between front‑end UX work (Typescript/React/Next.js) and backend systems on AWS and Kubernetes, he’s delivered both user‑facing tools and logistics/warehouse backend improvements. His unusual blend of artisanal farming and engineering means he approaches systems design with a seasonal, sustainability-minded perspective that informs pragmatic tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (64)
charts10
portal10
handlebars9
r-package9
kubernetes9
helm9
biodiversity9
package-manager8
nomenclature8
template-engine8
mustache8
traits8
taxonomy8
data-services7
biology7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RBGKew/pykew
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Python library for accessing Kew's data services
Contributions:39 commits, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
python-librarydata-servicespythondata-analysisdata-integrity
RBGKew/rbgkew.github.io
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonspatial-analysisspatialbiodiversitybiodiversity-informatics
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