Jonathon Grigg
Senior Backend Engineer at Gigs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonathon Grigg is a Senior Backend Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems using Go, TypeScript and React, currently focused on embedding connectivity for mobile services at Gigs. He has a proven track record at Atlassian improving Jira Cloud’s extensibility and performance and has moved between frontend, backend and embedded domains—shipping firmware in C, desktop tooling in Python, and migrating Node.js backends to TypeScript. Comfortable across the full stack, Jonathon combines pragmatic engineering with systems thinking to deliver scalable APIs on AWS while keeping developer experience in mind. He contributes to Android open-source tooling aimed at improving UX, reflecting a long-standing interest in polishing user-facing details. Based in London, he brings an interdisciplinary curiosity that connects technology with food systems and urban planning, and is known to recharge with cycling adventures and experimental cooking.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Bachelor of Science, Exchange Student Bachelor of Science at Lund UniversityThe University of Melbourne
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AOKP/packages_apps_ROMControl
Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathon primarily contributed to the ROMControl application, focusing on user interface and feature enhancements within the Android environment. Their commits included modifying settings for the notification LED, adding a navbar button to open/close notifications, and allowing the 'enabled toggles' dialog to be closed with the back button. Furthermore, they updated the status bar preferences, incorporating a brightness toggle setting. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the user experience and expanding the application's customization options within the Android operating system.
jonathongrigg/jonathongrigg.github.io
Jul 2015 - Apr 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 10 months
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