Nigel Jones
Software Engineer, AI Foundations, IBM Research
Hove, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNigel Jones is a seasoned software engineer with 10+ years driving open-source and research-focused engineering at IBM, now building AI Foundations to make generative systems more reliable and predictable. He blends deep systems experience—from early voice-response and InfoSphere architecture to leading open metadata efforts like Egeria—with recent work at the intersection of quantum and agentic AI. A long-time open-source maintainer and backend developer, Nigel has contributed to graph-query and API work in prominent projects such as Egeria and led post-quantum cryptography efforts within Linux Foundation initiatives. Based in Hove, UK, he combines hands-on CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and supply-chain security practice with a pragmatic focus on developer tooling for production-grade ML systems. Colleagues rely on him for technical leadership that spans low-level performance tuning to high-level governance and community building.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Physics and Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Physics and Computer Science at The University of ManchesterBSc Physics, BSc Physics at University of OxfordHigh School Physics Chemistry Maths Further Maths, High School Physics Chemistry Maths Further Maths at Royal Grammar SchoolHigh School chemistrymathsphysicsbiologyfrenchsociologymusicenglish lang english litgeography, High School chemistrymathsphysicsbiologyfrenchsociologymusicenglish lang english litgeography at Bishopston Comprehensive School
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
java10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
graph-database8
tomcat6
http6
ssl6
docker6
container6
ibm-cloud6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
odpi/egeria
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Egeria core
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:36 releases, 434 reviews, 3448 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nigel's commits involve merging code, which includes changes to files in the `open-metadata-conformance-suite/open-metadata-conformance-suite-server/src/main/java` directory. This indicates they are involved in backend development, likely working on features related to the Egeria core and test-related functionality. They are working on graph queries which indicate they may be using Graph Databases as a backend database. They also work on code related to API calls.
egerialinux-foundationodpi-egeriaodpidata-engineering
odpi/egeria-connector-jdbc
Nov 2020 - Mar 2023
JDBC connectors for Egeria (Integration and Resource)
Contributions:1 release, 273 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 4 months
egeriasqldatabasejavaconnectors
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