Jonny Reeves
Engineering Manager at Meta
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJonny Reeves is an Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience leading frontend and full‑stack teams at large tech companies including Meta and Improbable, blending hands-on JavaScript expertise with people-first leadership. He’s known for growing connected, high‑performing teams while staying deeply involved in code—refactoring CI/CD and JavaScript tooling for open-source projects like the gRPC‑Web and ts‑protoc‑gen repos. Comfortable across release automation, build systems and compatibility fixes, he brings practical DevOps discipline to shipping reliable libraries and applications. Based in England and originally trained in audio engineering, Jonny combines technical curiosity with a creative, empathetic approach to management that helps engineers do their best work.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
2:1 BA Hons. Audio Engineering, 2:1 BA Hons. Audio Engineering at Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) Guildford
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Github Skills (29)
git10
javascript10
npm10
typescript10
bash10
browser10
cicd10
release-management10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
grpc-web10
typescripts10
grpc10
plugin9
jquery9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
improbable-eng/ts-protoc-gen
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
Protocol Buffers Compiler (protoc) plugin for TypeScript and gRPC-Web.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Release Manager
DevOps Engineer & Release ManagerContributions:6 releases, 71 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonny primarily focused on refining the project's release process through extensive modifications to the `release.sh` script. They implemented and debugged various release automation steps, including version bumping, tagging, and publishing to npm. The user also created and maintained a `travis-ci-build.sh` script and addressed CI-related issues. Further, the user's contributions include fixing an integration test.
compilergrpc-webprotocprotocol-bufferstypescript
improbable-eng/grpc-web
Feb 2017 - Dec 2019
gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 73 commits, 125 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jonny primarily focused on refactoring and improving the JavaScript code within the gRPC-Web project, specifically within the `jsplayground` directory and the `index.js` files. They added `grpc-polyfill` to improve compatibility. The user contributed to the build process through scripts and refactored the CI/CD pipeline by updating the release scripts. They updated the package references and dependencies.
golanggrpc-webtypescriptgrpcbrowser
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