Kerry Jones
Co-Founder And CTO at Blend Media
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKerry Jones is a hands-on technical leader and founder with three decades of software experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of a stealth startup while running Vibing Founders, a London meetup for AI-assisted bootstrapping founders. He has scaled marketplaces and immersive media platforms—most notably shaping Blend Media from MVP to a profitable 360° video and AR/VR content marketplace—and led platform growth at Depop prior to its acquisition. Equally comfortable in architecture and execution, Kerry has deep expertise in distributed systems, Elixir/Phoenix, Scala, machine learning and platform scaling, and contributes to open-source projects such as the Elixir Stripe library. He combines product-driven engineering with commercial focus, advocating empowered cross-functional teams practicing Continuous Discovery and Delivery. Known for turning research and prototypes into revenue-generating products, he blends startup grit with enterprise-grade technical discipline.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Honours Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Honours Computer Science at James Cook University
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Github Skills (11)
elixir10
stripe-api10
apidoc9
akka9
api9
test-driven-design8
json6
user-stories6
mongodb6
bson6
agile6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
beam-community/stripity-stripe
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
An Elixir Library for Stripe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kerry primarily worked on updating and maintaining the Elixir library for Stripe. Their contributions included updating the default Stripe API version, adapting the library to changes in the Stripe API, such as renaming fields on Person objects and removing deprecated features related to Customer tax information. They also made adjustments to the library based on the Stripe API's updates to subscription schedules.
hexelixir-librarystripeelixirstripe-api
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