Jonathan Poole
Co-Founder at Volary
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Poole is a build systems engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years’ experience building resilient, distributed systems and developer tooling from the UK. As Co-Founder of Volary and creator/lead developer of the open-source multi-language build system Please, he combines hands-on systems engineering with product-minded leadership. His career at Thought Machine involved designing eventually-consistent, durable services on Kubernetes using Go, gRPC and Kafka to scale payment scheduling to millions of events. Known on GitHub for “bending computers to his will,” he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, performance, and automation. A Computer Science graduate from the University of Kent, he favors elegant engineering trade-offs that simplify complex distributed problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Computer Science, Bsc Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
please-build10
intellij-idea10
extensible10
minifier10
golang10
monorepo10
code-editor10
high-performance10
build-system10
bazel10
amazon10
buck10
pants10
css10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Tatskaari/go-deps
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Helper CLI for adding third party go dependencies to a Please.build enabled repo
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 96 commits in 8 months
golangthird-partydependenciespartycli-helper
please-build/puku
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Puku is a tool to generate and maintain Go targets for the Please build system
Contributions:24 reviews, 84 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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