Jon Topper
Founder at The Scale Factory Ltd (scalefactory)
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJon Topper is a seasoned AWS and DevOps founder with 14+ years of experience building and operating scalable infrastructure for B2B SaaS companies. As founder of The Scale Factory, he grew a specialist cloud consultancy focused on security, compliance and operational resilience and successfully exited to Ten10 in November 2024, where he now serves as a strategic advisor and evangelist. Hands-on throughout his career, Jon has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Vagrant—adding Hyper-V snapshot support and cross-PowerShell compatibility—and enhanced the Fog Ruby cloud library with deeper AWS integration. He combines deep systems engineering (from LAMP and VMware platforms to modern cloud-native patterns) with practical delivery experience across media and high-traffic consumer services. Based in Leeds and a Manchester computer science graduate, he’s as comfortable leading technical teams and data centre migrations as he is rolling up his sleeves to fix subtle infra bugs. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, networked, and selective about connections—preferring meaningful professional relationships over cold outreach.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English
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Github Skills (21)
rds10
cloud-computing10
hyper-v10
ruby10
automation10
aws10
build-automation10
virtualization10
powershell10
automations10
mysql9
svn9
autoscaling9
database6
optimization6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/vagrant
Feb 2014 - May 2016
Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on enhancing the `Vagrant` project's functionality and integrating snapshots for the `Hyper-V` driver. They implemented snapshot operations, including save, restore, and delete, within the `Hyper-V` provider. Furthermore, the user addressed NFS export issues and enhanced the snapshot commands with options like `--no-delete`. They also worked on adjusting the logic to support the different PowerShell versions.
vagrantrubyautomationvirtualization
fog/fog
Oct 2013 - Jul 2014
The Ruby cloud services library.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon contributed to the Fog Ruby cloud services library by implementing support for AWS features and refining existing functionalities. Their work includes adding IAM Instance Profile support to launch configurations and improving VPC security group integration for RDS. They also addressed a bug related to an errant argument and merged code related to VPC security groups for RDS, indicating a focus on AWS service integration and improvement.
cloud-servicesruby
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