Jonah Grimes
Senior Digital Solutions Architect at IHG Hotels & Resorts
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJonah Grimes is a Senior Digital Solutions Architect with over two decades of software and architecture experience and 11 years in senior cloud and enterprise roles, currently shaping digital experiences at IHG Hotels & Resorts. He combines deep Java backend expertise, React/Next.js front-end skills, and SQL/NoSQL data design with hands-on AWS cloud architecture to deliver pragmatic, business-aligned solutions. Jonah has driven large-scale migrations and cost-optimization efforts—helping orchestrate an acquisition due diligence roadmap and cutting infrastructure costs while doubling capacity. He’s built high-performance entity-resolution systems handling billions of vertices with sub-second search and scaled Kubernetes and Cassandra deployments in production. Equally comfortable advising executives as he is writing code, he focuses on developer experience and operational excellence through tools like ArgoCD, Backstage, and Terraform. Outside of work he’s an avid board gamer, dungeon master, guitarist and bourbon enthusiast, bringing a creative, community-oriented mindset to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering and Computer Science at University of LouisvilleHigh School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at South Oldham High School
English
Github Skills (66)
infrastructure10
dx10
microservices10
service-catalog10
backstage10
code-generator9
amazon-kinesis9
jooq9
slf4j9
react-error-boundary9
jax-rs9
aws-cdk9
java9
kinesis-stream9
jpa8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jmgrimes/bookings-frontend-react
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
Sample project that demonstrates multiple facets of React Hooks, guided by Manning Publications "React Hooks in Action". This project is my journey through that sample application, along with any modifications or improvements I make as I work on it.
Contributions:22 PRs, 63 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
react-hooksguidedreact-routerreactjsreact-query
jmgrimes/bookings-frontend
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
Frontend application for the bookings system, based on React, Next.js, GraphQL, Nexus, and Apollo.
Contributions:12 PRs, 66 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
next-jsreactreact-nextbookingsreact-next-js
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