Ronald Waldon-howe is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer based in New South Wales with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems at scale, currently driving platform reliability and developer experience at Atlassian. He brings a full-stack background from leading web and backend teams—spanning PHP, Java, Ruby, Go and JavaScript—and a track record of pragmatic leadership from his BlinkMobile tenure. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-browser UX in front-end projects like a canvas-based signature pad and is an aspiring Rustacean who experiments across tooling and systems. Off-hours he’s a 3D printing enthusiast and Arch/Bluefin Linux user, hinting at a hands-on, systems-minded approach to problems that complements his production engineering focus.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National University
High School Certificate, Music, Physics, Software Design & Development, Maths (4 unit), UAI 91.55, High School Certificate, Music, Physics, Software Design & Development, Maths (4 unit), UAI 91.55 at Canobolas Rural Technology High School, Orange, NSW, 2800
A jQuery plugin for assisting in the creation of an HTML5 canvas based signature pad. Records the drawn signature in JSON for later regeneration.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ronald primarily focused on updating and expanding the example files for the signature pad plugin. Their commits included modifications to the HTML and JavaScript code within the examples, addressing the use of pre-built JavaScript and correcting legacy script attributes. Further, they added a new full-window example and implemented a fix for IE10 touch interaction with canvas elements, improving the user experience across browsers. These changes demonstrate a focus on example usability and browser compatibility.
impose my will upon a new or existing Node.js project
Contributions:28 releases, 527 commits, 328 PRs in 6 years 7 months
appveyorjs-projecteslintnode-jsnode-module
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Ronald Waldon-howe - Senior Cloud Platform Engineer