John Vincent
Head Of Engineering at Otus (formerly Blueprint)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Vincent is a Head of Engineering based in London with 13 years of experience building highly scalable systems and leading cross-functional teams across fintech, blockchain, and consumer travel. He is a polyglot engineer proficient in Java, Kotlin, Go, JavaScript and Clojure, and combines hands-on systems work with Agile and DevOps practice to ship reliable production services. His background includes senior roles at Revolut, Blockchain.com and technical leadership at Rarible, and he has contributed to the widely used Neo4j project—adding core text-index and monitoring improvements that increased database reliability. As a founder-level operator running Scalablex Ltd alongside his corporate leadership, he blends product-minded engineering with open-source curiosity, having authored drivers and frameworks in Rust and Go. Known for pragmatic architecture and reducing operational flakiness, he focuses on measurable improvements that scale teams and systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Information Science, B.E, Information Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (12)
neo4j10
graphdb10
javas10
cypher10
graph-database10
database-design10
java10
optimization9
database-optimization9
database-tuning9
query-optimization9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
neo4j/neo4j
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Graphs for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:42 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the Neo4j database project by adding functionality to admin tool commands, modifying the import tool, and enhancing query execution metrics. They implemented changes related to text index, including creation and recovery, which is a key feature of the database. Additionally, the user was involved in improving internal monitoring mechanisms by logging exceptions for monitor listeners and updating test cases to verify index features and prevent flakiness, thereby improving database reliability.
neo4j-databasedirected-acyclic-graphnosqlgraphsdatabase
yehohanan7/avro-clj
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:33 commits in 3 months
avroavro-serializationdeserializationserializationapache
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