Philip Jones
VP Technology at Curaleaf International
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPhilip Jones is a VP of Technology and hands-on engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-output teams and production-grade infrastructure across fintech, health, and platform companies. He blends a servant-leader management style influenced by the Toyota Way with deep technical expertise in DevOps, Python, and HTTP/ASGI systems—skills reflected in substantial open-source contributions to projects like Flask, Werkzeug, h2 and the ASGI spec. A former particle physicist with a DPhil from Oxford, he brings rigorous scientific thinking to software design and reliability engineering. Philip has led engineering organisations from startups to scale-ups (including CTO and VP roles) and still contributes core server and protocol improvements—such as HTTP/2, ASGI lifespan/versioning, and async support—that underpin modern Python web stacks.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics, Physics, 1st, Master of Physics, Physics, 1st at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (40)
url-routing10
json10
pytest10
werkzeug10
python10
testing10
http10
test-framework10
websocket10
eslint10
wsgi10
flask-ask10
asyncio10
asgi10
web-framework10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pgjones/hypercorn
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Hypercorn is an ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 563 commits, 44 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily contributed to the development of the Hypercorn ASGI and WSGI server, adding core functionality for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. Their work included implementing command-line arguments and SSL settings, refactoring the HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 serving code, handling unhandled exceptions within the ASGI framework. They also introduced multiprocessing worker support and addressed various bugs in the connection lifecycle, ensuring proper handling of web socket connections, timeouts and graceful shutdowns.
asgipythonwsgi-serverasynciohttp3
pallets/quart
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
An async Python micro framework for building web applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 934 commits, 75 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Philip contributed to performance improvements within the Quart framework by refactoring code for direct access to the request context stack. They also implemented a hypothesis-based testing system, adding extensive testing for routing converters and other functionalities. Additionally, the user improved the testing setup by adding a test client for the ASGI framework.
asgipythonasynchronousasync-pythonasyncio
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