Jonny Paton
Software Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJonny Paton is a London-based software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end systems and contributing to open-source multimedia tooling. He has practical expertise improving input and audio subsystems, notably enhancing SFML’s window and joystick handling on Windows and adding polymorphism to its audio sources—work that reflects attention to platform nuances and API flexibility. A pragmatic problem-solver, Jonny balances engineering rigor with incremental improvements to build systems and docs, making libraries easier to maintain and extend. Outside work he’s a gamer and Dundee United fan, which hints at a collaborative, community-minded approach to projects and a taste for real-time interactive systems.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
397reputation
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
wp-api10
winapi10
ws-api10
cprogramming-language10
opengl8
audio7
game-physics6
tensorflow6
visual-studio6
windows6
cmake6
sfml6
networking6
udp6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SFML/SFML
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 50 commits, 81 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonny's contributions focused on enhancing the SFML library's functionality, specifically concerning window and joystick input handling. They implemented a mechanism to optimize joystick updates by polling them only when a WM_DEVICECHANGE message is received on Windows. Additionally, the user added polymorphism to the sf::SoundSource class, providing flexibility in audio source implementations. Minor changes were also made to the build system and documentation.
gamesmultimedia-libraryc-plus-plussdkaudio
JonnyPtn/SFML
Apr 2021 - Apr 2026
Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
Contributions:2 PRs, 209 pushes, 79 branches in 5 years
multimedia-libraryopengl3audioopenglsfml
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