Jon Pulfer
Software Developer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Pulfer is a pragmatic software developer with 12 years of experience building distributed systems and microservices, currently focusing on Go and Rust for customer-facing and internal APIs. He has deep familiarity with standard libraries and frameworks like Chi and Actix, and practical experience with SRP6a authentication, TLS/HTTP2, PKI and blockchain concepts including Ethereum. Jon has progressed from system and Unix administration roles into backend leadership positions—most recently technical lead and staff engineer at Octopus Money—and now develops at Apple, showing a career that spans infrastructure to product services. He is comfortable operating in cloud environments (GCP and AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes, Marathon/Mesos), and has contributed to notable open-source work such as enhancements and testing for a goamz fork integrating DynamoDB and S3 features. Outside of software he once ran a beekeeping business, reflecting a hands-on, self-reliant approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
City and Guilds, Boat Building, City and Guilds, Boat Building at Lowestoft CollegeFramlingham Earl High
English, Italian
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Github Skills (10)
aws-s310
go10
amazon-s310
aws10
amazon-web-services10
s3-bucket10
autoscaling9
api8
apidoc8
xml7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AdRoll/goamz
Jan 2014 - Jan 2014
Fork of the GOAMZ version developed within Canonical with additional functionality with DynamoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on adding new features and implementing mock tests within the `goamz` repository. They implemented a method to create launch configurations, modifying related data structures. Furthermore, the user implemented mock tests using a cut down version of the testutil set up to improve test coverage. The user also added functionality to copy objects within the S3 service.
dynamodb
JonPulfer/advent_of_code
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
Advent Of Code 2018 to explore Rust
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
rustrust-langexplore
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