Summary
Jono Handley-cole is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in London with 18 years of experience leading full-stack teams and shipping web and native products. He has progressed from hands-on C++ client work at Last.fm to building realtime collaborative editors and scalable backend services at Poetica and Condé Nast, and now leads engineering at Lucid. Comfortable across Node.js, Python, mobile and native platforms, he focuses on fast-moving, agile teams that maintain high quality through testing, deployment automation and observability. Notable achievements include improving Operational Transform reliability, building stats and notification systems, and designing data ingestion pipelines and cross-platform browser/native integrations. He pairs technical depth with people leadership—mentoring engineers while driving platform improvements that reduce operational friction. Colleagues value him for pragmatic engineering trade-offs and a knack for stabilizing complex distributed systems.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 1st, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 1st at University of Hull
English