Jon Sharratt is a seasoned senior software engineer and hands-on engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering full-stack solutions across startups, agencies, and product companies. He founded and ran Craftship, scaled teams as Head of Engineering and Lead Developer roles, and now contributes senior technical direction at System Zero while based in Milton Keynes. Comfortable across agile disciplines (Kanban and SCRUM), Jon blends strong delivery instincts with engineering practices like TDD, pair programming and continuous delivery to keep teams shipping reliably. He’s an active contributor to the Serverless Framework ecosystem, improving packaging and deployment behavior for real-world serverless apps. Known for pragmatic refactoring and build/deployment automation, he brings both client-facing consultancy skills and deep operational/devops experience to product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced GNVQ Information Technology, Advanced GNVQ Information Technology at Stourbridge College
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on enhancing the packaging and deployment aspects of the Serverless Framework. Their contributions included improvements to the zip file creation process, such as supporting glob patterns for including and excluding files, and ensuring correct handling of dot files and symlinks. They also addressed linting issues and refined the exclusion logic for more efficient packaging.
Contributions:12 PRs, 49 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 8 months
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