Jonathan Haines

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

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Jonathan Haines is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-focused tools and polished user experiences, currently based in Hobart, Tasmania. He blends front-end craftsmanship with back-end and tooling work—shipping Windows desktop installer and client improvements for Squirrel and SparkleShare while contributing type safety and linting enhancements across the Ember ecosystem. Passionate about mentoring new developers and open source, he has implemented pragmatic fixes and adapters for web standards projects like Hono, including a Cloudflare Pages adapter that smooths edge deployments. His interests in functional programming and composable UIs inform a careful approach to middleware, types, and user-facing details such as installer shortcuts and UI progress indicators. Notably, he moves fluidly between improving build processes and polishing user interactions, demonstrating both systems-level thinking and attention to developer ergonomics.

12 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Engineering, Computer Systems, Engineering, Computer Systems at University of Tasmania

Github Skills (44)

javascript10

middleware10

apidoc10

routers10

testing10

windows10

guideline10

router10

typescript10

typescript-definitions10

eslint10

cloudflare-workers10

squirrel10

netframework10

windows-forms10

Programming languages (8)

TypeScriptC#CSSC++HandlebarsJavaScriptGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

hbons/SparkleShare

Aug 2013 - May 2017

Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:28 commits, 11 PRs, 2 tags in 3 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Windows client of SparkleShare, focusing on UI enhancements, bug fixes, and feature implementations. Their work included adding a progress bar with download speed display, integrating new note-taking functionalities, and refining the user interface with features such as custom protocol handling and avatar display. They also improved the build process by adding debug and release configurations.

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Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows

Nov 2014 - Sep 2015

An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 43 comments in 10 months

Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the application's installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps. Their work included adding and removing shortcuts for applications, specifically targeting locations like the Start Menu and Desktop. The user also modified the codebase related to NuGet package dependencies and introduced changes to handle the application's setup icon. These contributions focused on improving the user experience during the application's installation and update processes.

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