Jonathan Jacobs
Regional Sales Manager at Baypac Solutions (Pty) Ltd
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolJonathan Jacobs is a results-driven Regional Sales Manager with 14 years of experience and a 13-year specialty in the adhesives industry, known as one of South Africa’s top adhesive specialists. He combines deep technical knowledge of adhesive chemistries and machinery with a decade of frontline management experience, leading sales and technical teams to meet tight deadlines and demanding targets. Jonathan has run regional operations, managed stock and logistics, and built strong vendor relationships with machinery suppliers like Nordson and Robatech. Equally comfortable in production and business development roles, he has overseen projects, maintenance schedules, and client acquisition across industrial sectors. Beyond sales, he contributes to open-source back-end engineering—improving logging and XML utilities in notable projects—demonstrating analytical rigor and hands-on coding aptitude. Based in Gauteng, he brings a calm, customer-focused approach that balances technical problem-solving with commercial growth.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Graduate Academy of South Africa12, 12 at King Edward VII School
Github Skills (13)
xml10
elementtree10
logging10
pytest10
python10
xml-parsing10
soap10
testing9
asyncio8
documentation8
twisted7
trace7
tracer7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
praekeltfoundation/vumi
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Messaging engine for the delivery of SMS, Star Menu and chat messages to diverse audiences in emerging markets and beyond.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on developing and testing utilities related to XML processing within the ParlayX transport. Their commits involved the creation of XML parsing and generation tools, including classes for handling namespaces, qualified names, and element creation. They implemented functions for extracting text from XML elements and added functionalities for handling lists and attributes in the ElementMaker. Additionally, they contributed to SOAP utilities and server-side components.
diverseaudiencessms-messagesmenuchat
itamarst/eliot
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Eliot: the logging system that tells you *why* it happened
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan focused on improving the `Eliot` logging library, specifically enhancing its field handling capabilities. They added support for positional arguments of `Field` instances within the `fields()` function. The user also updated documentation and the news file to reflect these changes. Furthermore, they ensured the values passed to the `_MessageSerializer` were instances of the `Field` class and addressed review comments.
pythonasynciocausality-analysisnumpytracing
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