Jonathan Wren
Seattle, Washington, United States
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RockstarJonathan Wren is a seasoned full-stack and DevOps engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, accessible web applications and leading engineering operations from Seattle. He has progressed from hands-on development and systems roles to Head of DevSecOps at Craft.co, combining disciplined execution with security-minded infrastructure and delivery practices. Jonathan maintains the popular jrnl command-line project, contributing backend fixes, testing improvements, and DevOps tooling that reflect his attention to reliability and developer ergonomics. His background spans consumer platforms at Rover, enterprise web architecture at POSSIBLE, and financial systems supporting billions in assets, giving him a rare blend of product, security, and operational perspective. Colleagues know him for standardizing codebases and tightening CI/CD and cryptography-related issues—practical, detail-oriented work that quietly prevents outages.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
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debug10
python10
testing10
command-line10
cli10
cicd9
devops9
merge9
google-sheets9
yaml8
encryption7
git-merge6
php6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jrnl-org/jrnl
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:40 releases, 305 reviews, 334 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on maintaining and improving the `jrnl` command-line application. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to the crypto module and escaping data, along with Poetry updates involving version and author email updates. They also made changes to features, environment and core steps to update and maintain the testing suite. Additionally, the user was involved in standardizing the codebase using the black formatter and updating the changelog script.
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wren/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1356 commits, 465 pushes, 30 branches in 5 years 3 months
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