Jonny Heavey
Lead Principal Frontend Engineer at Backbase
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonny Heavey is a Lead Principal Frontend Engineer based in Exeter with 13 years of experience building both user-facing applications and backend integrations. He combines hands-on frontend leadership at Backbase with a history of technical leadership roles at Bitweave and Surevine, where he progressed from software engineer to head of engineering. Comfortable across the full stack, Jonny contributes to open-source projects such as the widely used Openfire XMPP server, adding Message Archive Management and initial Stream Management support. He is skilled at turning complex realtime and messaging requirements into pragmatic implementations and has a track record of improving maintainability by replacing ad-hoc solutions with established libraries. Known for mentoring teams and bridging product and engineering, he brings pragmatic architectural judgement to fast-moving projects. Trained in computer science at the University of Kent, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with practical delivery experience.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Kent
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stream10
javas10
xmpp10
jabber10
openfire10
java10
cordova9
xml9
ios6
apache-kafka6
backbonejs6
phonegap-plugin6
iphone6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
igniterealtime/Openfire
Apr 2015 - Jul 2015
An XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonny contributed to the implementation of XEP-0313 (Message Archive Management) by modifying the conversation manager and integrating relevant libraries. They replaced manual datetime definitions with existing implementations and addressed minor review suggestions. Additionally, the user worked on stream management by adding an initial implementation of XEP-0198 (Stream Management), including acknowledgement handling. The user also reverted changes to ofmeet binary files.
openfirexmpp-serverxmpplicensedapache-license
JonnyHeavey/jonnyheavey.github.io
Oct 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:11 pushes in 7 years 2 months
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