Nils Jonsson

Current

Associate Principal Software Developer at DataCert

Past

Senior Software Developer at Bridgeway
Programmer Analyst (software development lead) at Fayez Sarofim & Co
Telecommunications Programmer at Invesco Aim

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Education

Rice University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Nils Jonsson’s Summary

I’m a pragmatic software craftsman with more than a decade of experience shipping commercial software products for the legal industry and delivering mission-critical homegrown applications for the financial services industry.

• I’m passionate about using software best practices — agile methods in particular — to produce profits
• I rapidly master new technologies and techniques
• I’m active in open-source projects and in the developer community at large
• My written, oral and visual communication skills are solid

Nils Jonsson’s Specialties:

Ruby • Ruby on Rails • test-driven and behavior-driven development • RESTful application architecture • semantic XHTML / CSS • JavaScript

Nils Jonsson’s Experience

Associate Principal Software Developer

DataCert

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

• I’m a member of a team that uses agile methods to build products for managing the business of law
• I ramped up the skills and understanding of this team, helping them to build and take to production a new Rails-based web product
• I made technical presentations and prepared tutorials for all DataCert’s development staff
Senior Software Developer

Bridgeway

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 5 months)

• I shipped features in two releases of Bridgeway’s Java-based web product suite
• I was responsible for the distinctive look and feel of a new Windows Forms product, authoring all GUI components and overseeing visual style throughout
• I served as build master for the Windows Forms product
Programmer Analyst (software development lead)

Fayez Sarofim & Co

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

August 1997 — May 2004 (6 years 10 months)

• I led a team of six developers in the development and maintenance of all FS&Co’s custom applications
• I designed and constructed the extensible presentation layer of the application architecture and trained the rest of the development team in authoring applications for it
• I designed and constructed an equity portfolio analysis tool in collaboration with the COO
• I designed and constructed a custom groupware application for four stakeholder departments that collaborate to prepare materials for client meetings
• I helped develop and deliver business process-specific training materials to power users of reporting tools, enabling departments to self-serve most of their reporting needs without help from IT personnel
• I was asked by vendor Taurus Software for permission to reproduce my source code in their training materials because the code exhibited unusual and exemplary style
Telecommunications Programmer

Invesco Aim

(Investment Management industry)

April 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 5 months)

• I designed and led construction of a new implementation of the AIM Investor Line (1-800-AIM-LINE, a voice response system with a user base of four million shareholders)
• I helped develop and promote a corporate software development process as a charter member of a team whose work American Programmer (now Cutter IT Journal) spotlighted in the June 1995 article “Software Process Reengineering: Getting to [SEI Capability Maturity Model] ‘Level 3’ with Teamwork”

Nils Jonsson’s Education

Rice University

B.A. , Linguistics , 1989 — 1993

As a B.Mus. degree candidate I also studied violin performance, as well as music theory, composition and history at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music.

Additional Information

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My programming activities

Nils Jonsson’s Interests:

agile methods, automated software testing, software usability, domain-specific programming languages, DSLs, dynamic programming languages, API design, interaction design, social software, open-source software, OSS, music composition, music performance, music improvisation, photography