Paul Jolly
Co-Founder at myitcv.io
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Jolly is a Co-Founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building developer tools, infrastructure, and cloud-native services from London. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—particularly in Go—with product leadership at CUE Labs and myitcv.io, where he created the Google-sponsored interactive learning site play-with-go.dev. An active open-source contributor, Paul has made notable fixes and tooling improvements across the Go ecosystem, including golang/go, gopherjs, and the CUE language, and contributed infrastructure work to the widely used Play-with-Docker project. His background spans fintech and enterprise systems at Goldman Sachs and a stint founding a financial modelling startup, giving him both production-grade engineering chops and business acumen. Trained as a software engineer (MEng, Imperial) and with an MBA focused on entrepreneurship, he blends technical depth with product and go-to-market experience. He also quietly improves developer workflows—enhancing test frameworks, CI matrices, and compiler edge cases—that make large projects more reliable and maintainable.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA 2013, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MBA 2013, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at London Business SchoolMEng, Software Engineering, MEng, Software Engineering at Imperial College LondonCulford SchoolMBA (Exchange in Fall Semester 2012), Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, MBA (Exchange in Fall Semester 2012), Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Github Skills (44)
go-modules10
programming-language10
javascript10
docker10
grapesjs10
testing10
test-framework10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
compiler-design10
go10
api10
gr10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rogpeppe/go-internal
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Selected Go-internal packages factored out from the standard library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:18 releases, 57 reviews, 45 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on enhancing the testing framework for the `go-internal` packages. They added new test scripts, and refactored existing test code. The user also made improvements to the testscript language, by adding support for background processes, environment variable setting, and comparisons, including the introduction of the cmpenv command, thereby contributing to more robust and flexible testing capabilities. The user fixed a bug resolving directory paths, and updated dependencies.
golanginternaltestingstandard-librarythe-standard
gopherjs/gopherjs
Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
A compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 25 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the core compiler and related tooling for the Go to JavaScript transpiler. Their work included fixing compiler issues related to type switches, specifically handling JavaScript objects, and optimizing code generation. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to stack size limits in the Node.js environment, contributing to the reliability of the test suite. Furthermore, they updated the project dependencies, including using the new gcexportdata library.
golangbrowserjavascriptgocompiler
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