Jonathan Derrough is a founding software engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building end-to-end web, mobile, and backend systems, currently based in Berlin. He thrives at the intersection of architecture, delivery automation and quality engineering, guiding projects from ideation and estimates through specification, implementation and CI/CD industrialization. Comfortable wearing many hats, he has led mobile teams for large clients, partnered on creative agency and game-studio projects, and now helps a stealth startup scale. An active open-source contributor and ML tinkerer, he improved face-api.js by implementing robust face descriptor serialization and tests—showing attention to reproducibility and production-ready ML features. Colleagues describe him as a relentless builder who pairs technical rigor with mentorship and skills transfer to avoid organizational blind spots.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Epitech
Game Designer, Game and Interactive Media Design, Game Designer, Game and Interactive Media Design at ISART DIGITAL Paris
JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser and nodejs with tensorflow.js
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan implemented and tested core functionalities for the `face-api.js` library, specifically focusing on the `FaceMatcher` and `LabeledFaceDescriptors` classes. Their contributions included adding methods for JSON serialization and deserialization, along with unit tests to validate these functionalities. These changes directly enhanced the library's capability for face recognition and management of face descriptors.
A slippy map implementation written in C# for Unity3D
Contributions:1 review, 87 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 2 months
tilemapslippy-mapmap-matchingcsharpunity
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Jonathan Derrough - Founding Software Engineer at Stealth