Johny Jose
Research Engineer at Antithesis
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohny Jose is a research engineer and seasoned software leader with 11+ years building scalable web and distributed systems, currently working at Antithesis in London. He spent 2022–2024 as a Principal Engineer on Chef Habitat at Progress, contributing backend and supervisor reliability improvements to a widely used open-source packaging and orchestration project. Prior roles include founding and scaling two gamification-driven startups and designing core location-tracking infrastructure as Principal Engineer at Freight Tiger, showing a blend of product instinct and systems engineering. He has hands-on experience across DevOps, backend services, and resilient service orchestration—most notably introducing persistent service state and retry/backoff mechanisms to Habitat’s supervisor. Comfortable moving between technical design, implementation and community collaboration, he pairs entrepreneurial judgment with deep implementation chops. His early work at CERN and long history of leadership in AIESEC and TEDx events indicate a pragmatic collaborator who thrives in cross-functional, mission-driven teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
CBSE, CBSE at Sherwood Academy, Abu DhabiCBSE, CBSE at St Joseph's School, Abu DhabiBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at The Lakshmi Niwas Mittal Institute of Information Technology, JaipurCBSE Grade 12, CBSE Grade 12 at National Public SchoolICSE Grade 10, ICSE Grade 10 at Baldwin Boys High School Bangalore, Karnataka
English, Hindi, Malayalam
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Github Skills (20)
back-end-development10
package-management10
rust10
devops10
automation9
automations9
distributed-systems8
error-handling7
command-line7
command-line-interface7
cli7
n-ary-tree6
nodejs6
backbonejs6
rest6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
habitat-sh/habitat
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Modern applications with built-in automation
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 reviews, 206 commits, 31 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Johny primarily focused on implementing and refining features related to service restarts and backoff mechanisms within the Habitat Supervisor. They introduced a `PersistentServiceWrapper` to maintain state between restarts and added a `Retry` struct for handling retries, laying the groundwork for more robust hook execution. The user also made modifications to the supervisor's command-line interface by introducing new options to control service restart behaviors. Further contributions involved refactoring the supervisor's component to make code more consistent and reliable.
containersrustconfiguration-managementpackage-managerautomation
playlyfe/go-graphql
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
A powerful GraphQL server implementation for Golang
Contributions:5 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
golanggraphql-servergraphql
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