Paul Jones
Chief Technology Officer at Crystal Knows
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Jones is a technology leader and hands-on CTO with eight years of experience building backend systems, DevOps practices, and secure deployment pipelines across startups and large media companies. At Crystal Knows he progressed from Head of Engineering to VP of Engineering and Information Security and now CTO, blending platform engineering, continuous deployment advocacy, and security stewardship. He is fluent in German, prefers Go for modern backend work, and regularly uses Ruby/Rails, AWS services, and Bash to deliver reliable services. His background includes roles as a test team lead, build engineer, and solutions engineer, giving him a rare mix of QA, build/release, and backend expertise. Based in New Jersey, he pairs practical engineering with operational leadership, often championing continuous deployment and automation to shorten feedback loops and reduce risk.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Oberlin College
German
Github Skills (21)
weave9
apple-news8
api6
dockerhub5
ruby4
docker4
data-connectors3
data-connector3
buildx3
bundle2
continuous-integration2
monorepo2
graph1
python1
wsi1
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
paulijones/system_things
Apr 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
cheddartv/altice-mail-bridge
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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