Jonathan Blood
Software Engineer at Whatnot
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Blood is a software engineer with 14 years' experience specialising in backend Java and REST APIs, currently building marketplace systems at Whatnot from Dublin. He has led cloud migrations, cost-reduction efforts, and CMS consolidation projects at Groupon, where he contributed heavily to an internal Java backend framework and conducted 180+ technical interviews. His background spans e-learning, healthcare, and e-commerce, including building mobile-backed REST APIs and CI pipelines in healthcare and integrating open-source platforms early in his career. Comfortable in both hands-on development and architectural design, he pairs reliability-focused engineering with pragmatic product collaboration across web, mobile and marketing domains. Known for mentoring engineers and improving build tools, he brings a steady mix of operational ownership and cross-team communication. A First Class Computer Science graduate from University College Dublin, he often tackles thorny production incidents and long-term platform simplification in equal measure.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Drimnagh CastleBachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Computer Science, First Class Honours at University College Dublin
Github Skills (25)
java10
open-access10
rest-api10
dspace9
asset-management9
creative-commons9
android-application8
open-source8
jax-rs7
rest7
api7
jetty7
restful6
dropwizard6
hibernate6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JonathanBlood/Match_Tracker
Jun 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
rugbyeventsfootballamateurandroid
JonathanBlood/Electron-Desktop-Notifier
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 38 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
apielectronnotificationsdesktop-notificationsdesktop
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