Jon Eaves
Principal Staff Engineer (starting In May) at SEEK
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJon 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
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Commerce at University of Tasmania
English
Github Skills (19)
docker9
golang9
go9
assemble8
moby8
container8
ecosystem8
overlay7
hearthstone7
google-play6
music5
wpf5
player5
castle4
electron3
Programming languages (4)
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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