Jonas Bonér
Founder, CTO, And Chairman Of The Board at Akka
Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
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Top SchoolJonas Bonér is a seasoned entrepreneur and distributed-systems engineer with 18+ years building high-throughput, resilient cloud and edge platforms. As Founder, CTO and Chairman of Akka and creator of the Akka Project and AspectWerkz, he has shaped the tooling many teams rely on for elastic, transactional, real-time services. His hands-on contributions include implementing BookKeeper-based transaction logs and actor replay for cluster resilience, reflecting deep expertise in distributed actors and fault-tolerant state management. Jonas blends technical craftsmanship with leadership—founding companies, guiding open-source communities, and serving on foundation boards to steer ecosystem strategy. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he pairs a formal background in computer science, math and physics with a long-running practice in jazz, underscoring a creative, pattern-oriented approach to engineering. Outside engineering he’s a powder skier and obsessive learner who often translates improvisational thinking from music into system design.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Math, Computer Science, Physics, Math, Computer Science at Uppsala UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Mid Sweden UniversityJazz Musician, Jazz, Composition, Music Theory, Saxophone, Piano, Jazz Musician, Jazz, Composition, Music Theory, Saxophone, Piano at Sjövik School of MusicMath, Math at Stockholm University
English, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
distributed-systems10
akka10
java10
concurrency10
testing9
actor6
language-agnostic6
dataflow6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka-core
Feb 2009 - Feb 2016
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:764 commits, 2 pushes, 45 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonas's commits focused on the implementation of a BookKeeper-based transaction log for the akka/akka project. They implemented features for transaction log replay on actors during migration after node crashes and wrote end-to-end tests to verify the functionality. This work involved significant changes to the cluster and transaction log components of the system, particularly those related to distributed actors.
agilerun-appreactivedistributed-systemsconcurrency
jboner/jboner.github.com
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:123 pushes in 2 years
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