Jonny Scholes
Founder Director at Freelance
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolJonny Scholes is a Hobart-based founder and creative developer with 12 years of experience building web applications, interactive art, and community-focused festivals. As Founder/Director of Vibrance and a long-time freelance artist/developer, he blends front-end design sensibility with back-end engineering—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Wagtail CMS where he improved template logic, removed jQuery dependencies and strengthened image handling. He’s comfortable shipping full-stack solutions for events, arts organisations and startups, and has held roles from web apps engineer to creative technologist and communications coordinator. Jonny’s work sits at the intersection of code and street art, bringing a practical, human-centred approach to technically robust and visually engaging projects.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The Friends School, Tasmania
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
cms10
wagtail10
python10
jinja210
django10
javascript9
html6
command-line-interface6
css6
padding6
macos6
jquery6
unix6
amazon-s36
zip6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Jun 2016 - Aug 2020
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jonny contributed to the Wagtail CMS project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the backend and template logic. Their work includes loading static files in templates, validating filter strings for the Jinja2 image tag, and refactoring the upgrade notification system. The user also updated documentation and contributor information and improved JavaScript code to remove jQuery dependencies.
content-management-systemdjangopythoncmswagtail
jonnyscholes/alterhen-gatsby
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 293 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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