Jonathan Stowe
Software Consultant at ContractorUmbrella Ltd
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJonathan Stowe is a seasoned software consultant and architect with 25 years’ experience designing and implementing billing, provisioning, mediation and enterprise integration systems for ISPs and telcos. Based in London, he combines deep hands-on skills in .NET/C#, Perl, SQL Server, Oracle and MS BizTalk with a strong SOA/EAI mindset to deliver reliable data migrations and complex system integrations. He has a proven track record across large organizations (BBC, Deutsche Bank, YOOX NET-A-PORTER) and as a consultant helping companies merge and modernize OSS/BSS landscapes. An active open-source maintainer on CPAN and a contributor to the Rakudo Raku compiler, he brings pragmatic language curiosity—“I’ll try any language once”—to solving low-level runtime and cross-platform issues. Outside enterprise projects he runs internet-radio and netlabel ventures, reflecting a long-term interest in media systems and streaming operations. Practical, versatile and detail-focused, he excels at turning messy legacy environments into auditable, service-oriented platforms.
25 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (12)
compiler-design10
moarvm10
nqp10
raku10
testing9
linux8
system8
operating-system8
freebsd8
api-design8
sys8
mysql6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rakudo/rakudo
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
🦋 Rakudo – Raku on MoarVM, JVM, and JS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 28 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed to the Rakudo Raku compiler, primarily focused on core functionality. Their work includes implementing and refining dynamic variable initialization and addressing issues with system calls, such as `uname` for different operating systems. They also made changes to the test suite and added deprecation warnings for certain function names within the `Test.pm` library. Furthermore, the user made contributions that directly affect the compilation and execution of Rakudo Raku code.
jsjvmmoarvmrakurakudo
jonathanstowe/JSON-Name
Nov 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 22 commits, 16 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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