John Iacona
Business Owner at Outbloom flower farm
Lampeter, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Iacona is a software developer and entrepreneur with over a decade of full-stack experience, currently splitting his time between freelance contracting and running Outbloom, an artisanal regenerative cut flower farm in Lampeter, Wales. He specializes in Ruby, Java, and Python back-end work, React frontends, and modern container-based architectures with Docker and Kubernetes. He previously led biodiversity informatics at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, building back-end tools and front-ends to make scientific resources accessible. More recently he contributed to product development at Blocktype and held senior engineering roles at Koru Kids and Farmdrop, focusing on back-end systems and logistics. An early Google Summer of Code participant, he contributed to GNOME Rhythmbox, underscoring a long-standing commitment to open-source software. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Florida and a BS in Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and is based in the UK.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (64)
charts10
portal10
handlebars9
r-package9
kubernetes9
biodiversity9
helm9
package-manager8
nomenclature8
template-engine8
mustache8
traits8
taxonomy8
data-services7
biology7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RBGKew/pykew
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Python library for accessing Kew's data services
Contributions:39 commits, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
python-librarydata-servicespythondata-analysisdata-integrity
RBGKew/rbgkew.github.io
Aug 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
pythonspatial-analysisspatialbiodiversitybiodiversity-informatics
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