Jonah Duckles
Senior Consultant And Co-Founder at Organizational Mycology
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJonah Duckles is a senior consultant and serial founder with 11 years of experience helping nonprofits, academic groups, and private companies grow sustainable programs and revenue. Based in Dunedin, New Zealand, he co-founded Organizational Mycology and runs multiple ventures including Whale Bytes and Future Bees NZ, blending consultancy with product-minded leadership. His background spans executive roles at Software Carpentry and Xero, where he led membership, technology, and data evangelism efforts to scale community-driven training and developer engagement. Jonah combines scientific rigor—an MS in Landscape Ecology from Purdue and early work in remote sensing and informatics—with practical tech stewardship, having contributed technical writing fixes to the well-known Software Carpentry website. He’s known for turning complex institutional challenges into reusable systems and funding-ready programs, often marrying research computing, education, and revenue models. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic strategy that preserves mission while unlocking new income and impact streams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Physics, Study Abroad Physics at University of New South WalesMS, Landscape Ecology, 4.0/4.0, MS, Landscape Ecology, 4.0/4.0 at Purdue University
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
html10
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editing10
jekyll10
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plpgsql6
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/website-archive
Dec 2015 - Dec 2020
Software Carpentry website (Archive)
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:400 commits, 643 PRs, 735 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jonah primarily focused on identifying and fixing broken links within the Software Carpentry website, specifically on the 'about' and 'join' pages, and the website's blog. The contributions include correcting various URLs to ensure accurate navigation within the site, fixing issues with the website and fixing broken link. Additionally, they added and modified content related to the website's mailing list, the Meetup etherpad and other organizational information.
liquidcarpentryjekyllsoftware-carpentry
jduckles/pwdiff
Jan 2018 - Jun 2022
Pretty diffs of markdown documents
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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