Jon Eaves
Australia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJon Eaves is a Principal Staff Engineer based in Greater Melbourne with 13+ years of experience crafting pragmatic architecture and turning large, complex problems into simple, deliverable solutions. He blends deep Java and cryptography expertise—co-founding and contributing to the Bouncy Castle project—with a long track record of improving engineering culture, delivery practices and data architectures across organisations like Envato, Shutterstock and Suncorp. Known as a hands-on mentor and developer-growth advocate, Jon builds high-performing teams by matching stakeholders’ needs to each engineer’s strengths and by introducing measurable improvement practices. He pairs product-aware solution architecture with risk-first thinking, spotting issues well before they surface in production. Aquirky aside: he’s the creator of the ToyRobot coding kata, signaling a taste for elegant, playful problem framing alongside serious security work.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
docker10
ecosystem9
container9
golang9
go9
hearthstone8
assemble8
overlay8
moby8
wpf6
music6
player6
google-play5
electron3
windows3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rtyley/spongycastle-old
Mar 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:14 commits in 1 month
castleandroidshipsbouncy-castlebouncy
pewsey/Testing
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
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