Jon Sherry
Computer Scientist at Arweave
University of Kent, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJon Sherry is a computer scientist and PhD student at the University of Kent with nine years of software engineering experience focused on backend systems and distributed networks. He has hands-on expertise in refining consensus and mining processes, improving network reliability, and extending node interfaces—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the Arweave server and developer toolkit. Jon’s work blends rigorous testing and simulation (including natural hashing-rate simulations) with practical features like reward distribution and HTTP tooling, showing a strong bias toward production-ready research. Based in the UK, he combines academic depth with pragmatic engineering, preferring to tackle subtle reliability issues in sharded networks that many teams overlook.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
arweave10
erlang10
network-protocol10
blockchain10
testing10
http-api9
api9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ArweaveTeam/arweave
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 69 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Arweave server. Their work involved refactoring the mining process, creating logging mechanisms for testing, and addressing block dropping issues within the sharded network testing environment. Additionally, they added support for simulations with natural hashing rates and extended the HTTP interface for interacting with the Arweave node, demonstrating a focus on backend development and network testing. They also implemented reward distribution and created a polling mechanism to check for updates.
developer-toolkitarweaveapp-developer
MBattyResearch/JeffreyRielyModel
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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