Jonathon Padfield
Principal Engineer at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathon Padfield is a Principal Engineer with 14 years' experience, currently shaping commerce platform architecture at REA Group in Melbourne. He specializes in designing and delivering highly available, scalable financial APIs and datastores using cloud-native patterns on AWS, with a strong focus on continuous delivery in distributed agile teams. A pragmatic polyglot, he routinely applies Ruby and JavaScript alongside TDD/BDD practices to reduce BAU and maintenance overhead. He has deep experience creating and mentoring remote teams to ship production-grade systems and tooling. Notably comfortable revisiting older stacks when needed (Perl included), he blends system design rigour with hands-on delivery. His background in software engineering from Monash underpins a steady track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable services.
14 years of coding experience
St Bede's College, Mentone, AustraliaBachelor of Computing, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computing, Software Engineering at Monash University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (137)
python10
authentication10
ansible10
locks10
test-results9
error-messages9
ruby9
devise9
automation9
ansible-role9
ssh9
devops9
service-provider9
probot9
rails9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
trammel/multi-analytics-turbolinks
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
analyticsgoogleturbolinksgoogle-analytics
trammel/exception_notification
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
railsplugin-notifiernotifierruby
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