Jon Kilroy
Senior Software Architect at Twilio
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Kilroy is a senior software architect and data leader with over a decade of hands-on experience designing large-scale data platforms and monetization systems, now shaping data strategy at Twilio after a long tenure at Yahoo. He has led cloud migrations of 40+ data products, established enterprise data governance and a Data Tech Council, and architected revenue-driving systems including an open-source analytics platform (Yavin) and a federated segmentation engine with advanced privacy controls. Comfortable across backend services, ETL, and UI/UX (including mobile and Ember/React Native work), he pairs deep engineering craft with product-minded delivery. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has improved core Java libraries such as Elide by refactoring ID persistence and hardening integration tests. Known for turning complex regulatory and technical constraints into operational systems, he blends strategic vision with frequent hands-on coding.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
java-libraries10
jpa10
hibernate10
json-api10
java10
testing9
api9
orm8
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
yahoo/elide
Oct 2015 - Apr 2022
Elide is a Java library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 36 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jon's contributions primarily focused on refining the Elide Java library, specifically concerning ID handling. They refactored ID persistence logic for entities, accommodating both generated and provided IDs. The user also worked on creating and modifying integration tests, which demonstrates testing for various scenarios, including creating entities with and without IDs. They further addressed core functionality by refactoring and implementing new features related to handling user types.
graphqljavajson-apiwebservicejava-library
denali-design/denali-react
May 2021 - May 2022
🚧 (WIP) React.JS component library for the Denali CSS Framework
Contributions:4 reviews, 19 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year
cssjsreactreactjsdenali-css-framework
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