Jonathan Conway

Current

• Technologist at ESP

Past

• Lead Architect at vzaar
• Technical Director at New Bamboo
• Principal consultant / Director at Agile Evolved

• Technical Architect at Netengines
• Software Engineer at weComm
• Java Developer at Pixelpark
• Internet Applications Developer at Nettec
• Freelance software engineer at Freelance

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Education

• Coventry University

Recommended

1 person has recommended Jonathan

Connections

60 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Jonathan Conway’s Summary

Experience of high transaction systems, designing software/systems architectures, leading teams and running companies.

Jonathan Conway’s Specialties:

Software/systems architecture, SNS, social media, Ruby, Merb, Rails, Erlang, Clojure, Javascript, Testing/BDD, Video, Java.

Jonathan Conway’s Experience

• Technologist

  ESP

  (Internet industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Doing lots of Agile stuff, pair programming, TDD, Ruby, video, api's, Merb and Rails.

• Lead Architect

  vzaar

  (Internet industry)

  January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)

• Technical Director

  New Bamboo

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year )

  When my company Agile Evolved merged with New Bamboo in 2007 I assumed the position of Technical Director.

• Principal consultant / Director

  Agile Evolved

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  Started the first dedicated Ruby on Rails consultancy company in the UK

• Technical Architect

  Netengines

  (Computer Software industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  J2EE, Hibernate, lots of Oracle mixed in with a dash of Ruby.

• Software Engineer

  weComm

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 5 months)

  Developed real time financial trading applications for Java enabled mobile devices

• Java Developer

  Pixelpark

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Autonomy search expert, Vignette, TCL, Java. Part of the team that built the original Lloyds TSB financial portal.

• Internet Applications Developer

  Nettec

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Perl, Java, Oracle, P4AS and Silverstream.

• Freelance software engineer

  Freelance

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 2000 (4 years )

  x86 ASM, C, C++, Java and Perl

Jonathan Conway’s Education

• Coventry University

  2:1 , Bsc Computer Science CEng , 1997 — 2000

Additional Information

Jonathan Conway’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Jonathan Conway’s Interests:

Bleeding edge technology, social systems, software empathy, body building and cooking.

Jonathan Conway’s Groups:

•    Ruby on Rails
•    Coventry University
•    London Ruby Users Group
•    Rubyists
•    Merb
•    Ruby on Rails UK
•    Clojure Users

Jonathan Conway’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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