John Molomby
Partner And Principal Engineer at Thinkmill
Australia
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Top SchoolJohn Molomby is a seasoned Partner and Principal Engineer with 12 years of professional experience building web platforms and guiding product delivery from Sydney. As a co-lead at Thinkmill he blends hands-on backend development with design-minded engineering to help teams worldwide ship scalable, user-focused products. He also runs Molomby Consulting, offering long-running consultancy experience that dates back to a decade as a Solutions Architect at Jaze Digital. An active open-source contributor, John has improved core backend features in KeystoneJS—refactoring ACLs, hardening password storage with bcrypt, and refining GraphQL outputs for a widely used headless CMS. Colleagues know him for pragmatic security-minded improvements and a focus on transparent, community-driven development.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
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Github Skills (28)
cms10
javascript10
password-protection10
back-end-development10
wpgraphql10
mongodb-database10
security10
passwords10
wordpress-graphql10
keystonejs10
graphql10
nodejs10
mongodb10
mysql9
apache9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone
Aug 2018 - Feb 2022
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 130 commits, 84 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Keystone CMS. They refactored code related to access control lists (ACLs) for items and fields and updated the Password field type to store bcrypt hashes. The user also made changes to the GraphQL output fields, resolvers, and auxiliary types. Furthermore, they improved code style through applying Prettier formatting.
graphqlheadless-cmsnodejsreactcms
keystonejs/keystone-classic
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Node.js CMS and web app framework
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 14 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John contributed primarily to the back-end functionality of the KeystoneJS CMS. Their work included adding features like HTTPS server options, implementing text index creation for search fields, and adding debugging around query construction. They also made improvements to the password field, including new configuration options and better security defaults, as well as preventing macro injection in CSV exports.
app-frameworkcmsnodejskeystonejsjavascript
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