Jon Layton
Founder at Bright Futurists
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJon Layton is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile products, cloud architectures, peer-to-peer protocols, and increasingly, machine learning systems. He has led teams and products from startup prototypes to production-grade distributions—most notably implementing wallets and full-node software for Bitcoin Private and contributing to flagship projects like Bitcoin Core. Comfortable across stacks, Jon has shipped high-fidelity realtime calling apps, integrated IoT messaging, and designed cross-platform distributions for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Based in Nashville and trained at Vanderbilt, he blends hands-on backend expertise with product intuition and a knack for tightening documentation and developer-facing RPC interfaces—a detail reflected in his open-source contributions to Bitcoin and Peercoin.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Minors Engineering Management & Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science Minors Engineering Management & Mathematics at Vanderbilt University
English, French
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Github Skills (20)
json-rpc10
ropc10
c-language10
drpc10
decentralization10
bitcoin10
bitcoins10
cryptocurrency10
rpc10
procedures10
blockchain10
litecoin10
cprogramming-language10
cryptography9
staking9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bitcoin/bitcoin
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 25 PRs, 81 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jon's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree. They made textual consistency fixes to RPC descriptions and examples, ensuring clear and accurate documentation for various RPC calls. Furthermore, the user modified code within src/wallet/rpcwallet.cpp, suggesting a focus on improving the wallet functionalities and potentially addressing related issues. The changes involved refining the presentation of information and providing consistent formatting.
cryptographyp2pc-plus-pluscryptocurrencybitcoin-core
peercoin/peercoin
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Reference implementation of the Peercoin protocol.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jon focused on refining the existing codebase, primarily within the wallet and RPC functionalities of the Peercoin project. Their contributions involved correcting textual inconsistencies, standardizing spacing, and improving the clarity of documentation within the RPC interface. The user also made necessary updates to the documentation examples. These improvements enhance the user experience and code maintainability.
proof-of-stakeblockchaindecentralizedminablecryptocurrency
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