Jonathan Wage is a technology executive and founder with 17 years of engineering experience and 15+ years leading product and platform teams. He currently runs TradersPost and has been the driving force behind the Doctrine PHP open-source ecosystem for nearly two decades, contributing core interfaces, bug fixes, multilingual inflection rules, and migration and MongoDB tooling across many high-profile Doctrine projects. As CTO and VP of Technology at OpenSky (acquired by Alibaba) and later CTO at MedTrainer, he led engineering transformations that bridged startup velocity with enterprise-grade reliability. Jonathan blends deep back-end expertise—databases, ORMs, migrations, and distributed systems—with a pragmatic leadership style that scales teams and code quality. Notably, his long-term stewardship of Doctrine shows an uncommon commitment to open-source sustainability and interoperability across PHP persistence layers. Based in Michigan, he pairs hands-on development instincts with entrepreneurial experience building and advising product-centric companies.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Motlow State Community College
Highschool Diploma Life studies, Highschool Diploma Life studies at Hillwood Highschool
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan appears to have been involved in maintaining and debugging the Doctrine 1 Object Relational Mapper. Their contributions include fixing conflicts in core files like `Mssql.php` and `Table.php`, indicating involvement in database adapter and table structure logic. The user also modified test cases and example files, showing they worked on various functionalities and ensuring proper behavior of the ORM.
Purl is a simple Object Oriented URL manipulation library for PHP 7.2+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 releases, 88 commits, 27 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the `purl` PHP library, focusing on URL manipulation. Their commits include fixing typos, using `sprintf` for string formatting, removing dependencies on `http_build_url`, and adding new features like the `extract` method to parse URLs from strings. They also added new classes like `FragmentTest`, `PathTest`, and `QueryTest`, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the library's functionality and test coverage.
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