John Kerr
Chief Technology Officer at Konquest
Sunderland, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kerr is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of experience turning web application ideas into scalable, production-ready platforms. He has repeatedly transformed legacy products and small engineering teams into robust, process-driven organisations while remaining hands-on across full-stack development, DevOps and cloud-native architectures. Comfortable with diverse stacks (C#, ASP.NET Core, Python, Node.js, React/Typescript) and microservices on AWS/Azure, he blends technical craftsmanship with business strategy and product design. Fluent in French and experienced in running a small business, he brings a practical international perspective and commercial sensibility to technical leadership. Notably, he has a track record of taking MVPs to commercially viable SaaS products and deliberately refactors heterogeneous tech stacks toward consistency and long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE Science Maths English French German Statistics Humanities Design & Technology Art & Design, GCSE Science Maths English French German Statistics Humanities Design & Technology Art & Design at Biddick Sports CollegeBSc (Hons) Computer Science (European Studies), BSc (Hons) Computer Science (European Studies) at Durham UniversityA-Levels ICT Maths French, A-Levels ICT Maths French at St Robert of Newminster Sixth Form CollegeERASMUS L'informatique (Computer Science), ERASMUS L'informatique (Computer Science) at Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg I)
French
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Github Skills (29)
gatsbyjs10
graphql10
react10
gatsby10
static-site-generator9
security9
boostrap9
compiler9
3d7
game-development7
html6
azure6
concurrency6
entity-framework6
open-source6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JohnJKerr/developkerr-web
Sep 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:7 PRs, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
JohnJKerr/gatsby-creative
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Gatsby implementation of Start Boostrap Creative template
Contributions:38 commits, 23 PRs, 47 pushes in 26 days
boostrapgatsbyjs
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