Jonathan Hult
Consultant at Jonathan Hult
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Hult is a seasoned backend engineer and consultant based in Austin with over a decade of experience delivering scalable, production-grade systems for retail, enterprise, and cloud environments. He blends hands-on engineering—Kotlin, Java, Rust, Python, and DevOps tooling—with solution consulting, having led migrations, refactors, and security-hardening efforts across Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes. Jonathan has driven measurable platform improvements: consolidating dozens of repositories, modernizing authentication and inventory APIs, and establishing CI/CD and dependency hygiene that reduced risk and operational load. An active open-source contributor, he has improved build and deployment workflows for well-known projects like Kotlin by Example and contributed core fixes to libraries such as Jodd and Vaadin Flow. Comfortable mentoring and scoping complex engagements, he pairs technical depth with practical delivery—often tackling the non-obvious plumbing (build systems, CI, and deployment automation) that makes large projects reliable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
English
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Github Skills (49)
application-framework10
api-rest10
javascript10
docker10
webapp-framework10
utilities10
web-application10
sendmail10
back-end-development10
api-design10
scripting10
vaadin10
restful-api10
send-email10
apidoc10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
teamatldocker/jira
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Dockerized Atlassian Jira
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits, 19 PRs, 67 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on the configuration and maintenance of the Dockerized Atlassian Jira project's build and deployment processes. They made frequent updates to the `buildscripts/release.sh`, `buildscripts/buildImage.sh`, and other related shell scripts to automate image builds, tagging, and releases. Their contributions involved updating Jira and Service Desk versions, switching image repositories, and improving the build and testing infrastructure, demonstrating a strong emphasis on CI/CD pipeline management within a Docker environment.
atlassianjiraatlassian-jirajira-containerdocker
vaadin/flow
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Vaadin Flow is a Java framework binding Vaadin web components to Java. This is part of Vaadin 10+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 29 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Vaadin Flow framework. Their work involved correcting Javadoc typos, refactoring code for efficiency by reusing existing methods, and resolving deployment configuration issues. They also addressed minor issues and enhanced the codebase by fixing typos across various files, including Javadoc, comments, and the POM, showing an attention to detail and a commitment to code quality.
javavaadinvaadin-flowweb-componentsweb-application-framework
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