Jonathan Gilbert is a seasoned technology executive and architect with 13+ years building and operating large-scale, customer experience–driven platforms, now serving as CTO of Redbelly Network while consulting through Trillica. He has deep experience leading cross-company platform strategy and identity engineering at Atlassian—driving no-downtime operations, high availability, and company-wide architectural principles for cloud products. Jonathan blends hands-on engineering (backend, embedded systems and automation) with executive leadership, having contributed to notable open-source projects like openHAB core and zigbee-herdsman-converters to extend IoT device support and scripting capabilities. He excels at scaling teams and platforms, aligning technical direction across organizations, and shipping resilient systems across Cloud and on‑premises environments. Based in New South Wales with a BSc in Mathematics from Nottingham, he often pairs pragmatic engineering with a security and compliance focus that surfaces in his consulting work.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons, Mathematics, BSc Hons, Mathematics at University of Nottingham
Contributions:18 reviews, 18 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the backend logic of the openHAB core framework, focusing on the automation module. Their work involved developing APIs for script engine factories, enabling script extension management, and adding features for script disposal tracking and script context passing. The user also refactored the code to allow scripts to track dependencies for reloading.
Contributions:46 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on enhancing the JavaScript scripting capabilities of openHAB. They implemented ES6+ support within the GraalJS engine, introduced a shared cache for scripting, and modified the GraalJS engine to utilize a new directory structure for automation scripts. Furthermore, they ensured that the GraalJS ScriptEngines were Autocloseable and also refactored the system so that the JS script engine does not watch `node_modules`. These changes demonstrate an effort to improve scripting functionalities within the openHAB ecosystem.
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Jonathan Gilbert - Chief Technology Officer at Trillica