Paul Jones
Chief Technology Officer at Nivo Ventures
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolPaul Jones is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building cross-border payments, insurance brokering, and booking systems for the international education sector. A polyglot generalist developer fluent in Java, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, C#, Python, Go and Elixir, he blends hands-on engineering with product-focused architecture to simplify complex, costly processes. He co-founded Cohort Go and previously led engineering at Flywire, demonstrating a consistent track record of delivering secure, multi-currency financial flows and high-throughput transactional platforms. An active open-source contributor, his front-end work includes meaningful enhancements to Rivets.js and React-Styleguidist that improved data-binding and component documentation workflows. Based in Brisbane, he pairs academic training in software engineering and ambient information with practical startup and board-level experience, uniquely combining deep technical craft with commercial leadership.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MPhil Ambient Information, MPhil Ambient Information at The University of QueenslandCompany Directors Course, Company Directors Course at Australian Institute of Company DirectorsLismore High School
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Github Skills (11)
databinding10
styles10
javascript10
styleguidist10
template-engine10
databind10
coffeescript10
react10
documentation9
testing9
jscript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
styleguidist/react-styleguidist
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 14 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the development of the React-Styleguidist project, focusing on improving the component rendering and documentation features. Their work included refactoring and enhancing the way components are parsed and displayed, adding support for inline examples using doclet tags. The user also implemented sections with introductory content and component sets, and addressed linting issues and added unit tests for the utility functions, ensuring code quality.
react-componentreactstyle-guidestyleguidestyled-components
mikeric/rivets
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Lightweight and powerful data binding.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Paul contributed significantly to the Rivets.js library, focusing on improving its functionality and addressing edge cases. They added support for binding multiple elements within a view and for binding to input elements of type "number." The user also enhanced the library's handling of undefined values and implemented model-based formatters. These changes collectively expanded the capabilities and usability of the data-binding library.
template-enginedata-bindingknockoutjavascriptknockoutjs
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