JonĀ Linklater-johnson
Engineering Manager at Twinkl Educational Publishing
Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Linklater-johnson is an experienced engineering manager based in Haywards Heath with over 16 years in professional roles and a software background stretching back 25 years. He has led and scaled engineering teams across consumer and enterprise products at companies like Twinkl, Depop, LabGenius and Brandwatch, blending hands-on front-end craftsmanship with people leadership. Comfortable shipping pragmatic UI fixes (notably contributing to the well-known jsbin project to improve browser compatibility) he pairs legacy-browser empathy with modern delivery practices. Colleagues describe him as a steady, delivery-focused leader who mentors engineers while driving product-aligned technical decisions. He brings a mix of startup agility and enterprise rigor, with a rare combination of long-term freelance, web and managerial experience.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Keele UniversityStokesley SchoolWeb Technologies, Web Technologies at Truro and Penwith CollegeStokesley School Sixth Form
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Github Skills (16)
internet-explorer10
uid10
mongoose10
nodejs10
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mongodb10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jsbin/jsbin
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Collaborative JavaScript Debugging App
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 21 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on front-end development tasks, specifically addressing issues related to browser compatibility and UI enhancements within the JS Bin application. They fixed layout issues in older Internet Explorer versions, such as IE9. The user removed a blue gradient from the UI to address a menu bug in IE. Additionally, they implemented UI improvements, like focusing on the first visible input element on forms.
debuggingjavascript
Binarytales/heroku-nodejs
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 8 months
nodejsdocker-imagedockernode
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