Jonathan Cairns
Software Engineering Manager at Intellum
Chester-le-Street, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonathan Cairns is a software engineering manager with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating web and mobile platforms, currently leading engineering at Intellum. He specializes in Ruby on Rails back-ends and full-stack work with PHP and Python, and has deep operational expertise managing 20–30 Linux servers with Ansible. A pragmatic advocate for quality, Jonathan has driven adoption of TDD, CI/CD and automated deployments across agencies, improving delivery speed through workshops, pair programming and process design. He contributes to open-source tooling for developers — notably adding multi-language debugging support and UI integration to the popular vim-vdebug project. Colleagues describe him as a focused, collaborative engineer who pairs technical leadership with strong communication and a preference for shipping well-tested, maintainable systems. His physics education underpins a methodical approach to problem solving and system design.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
RGS WorcesterMPhys, Physics, MPhys, Physics at Durham UniversityMaster of Physics, Master of Physics at Royal Grammar School Worcester
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Github Skills (21)
debugging10
debug10
python10
vimscript10
ruby10
window-management10
apache9
unit-testing9
phpunit9
php9
ruby-on-rails9
redirect9
logging9
file-handling8
shell6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vim-vdebug/vdebug
Jul 2012 - Sep 2015
Multi-language DBGP debugger client for Vim (PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:635 commits, 8 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan appears to be focused on implementing core features of the Vim debugger client. Their commits introduced a user interface for debugging, adding functionality to manage windows. The user was responsible for integrating PHP, Python, and Ruby support by developing components and functions that interact with the debugger engine. They contributed to the underlying debugging logic and window management.
pythonvimmulti-languagedbgpphp
joonty/pessimize
Jun 2013 - Apr 2018
Add version numbers with the pessimistic constraint operator to all gems in your Gemfile
Contributions:1 review, 77 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 10 months
rubyconstraintoperatorgemsgemfile
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