Jon Silver
R&D Director at JFDI Consulting
Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJon Silver is an R&D Director and automation-focused technologist with over four decades of hands-on coding experience and more than 33 years in IT consultancy, leading JFDI Consulting from Brighton to deliver practical, bottom-line automation for clients. He blends enterprise architecture, cloud/serverless (Azure), IoT, embedded firmware, and full-stack web development with a strong track record in Microsoft technologies and Power Platform, plus low-power electronics and 3D-printed product design. A seasoned conference speaker and long-time professional writer, he excels at translating complex technical ideas into business value and mentoring teams to get automation right without forcing one tool on every problem. Jon’s Bobb workflow engine demonstrates his focus on real-time/time-series automation for Smart Building and Industry 4.0 use cases, reflecting a pragmatic inventiveness honed since building computers at age 12. Ethically driven and politically engaged with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, he pursues automation that benefits people, processes, policies and planetary challenges.
10 years of coding experience
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
json-schema10
automation10
node-red10
esp3210
home-assistant10
libfdk-aac10
jsx10
markdown10
javascript10
cqrs10
data-validation10
mqtt10
formatter10
react-component10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JFDI-Consulting/attempt
Apr 2021 - Feb 2022
Functional error handling implementations for sync & async, to replace try/catch forever
Contributions:4 releases, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 9 months
implementationssyncjavascriptsync-asyncerror-handling
JFDI-Consulting/configizer
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Safe(r) balenaOS config.json updates remotely
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 7 months
json-configremotelybalenaosupdatesconfig
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