Jonathan Hult
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Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Hult is a backend software engineer based in Austin with over a decade of experience building resilient backend systems, developer tools, and CI/CD pipelines. He currently works at Chick-fil-A and has held senior roles at H-E-B and Mythics where he designed data pipelines, built managed services portals (Kotlin, Vaadin), and deployed secure remote access solutions using Tailscale and Smallstep. As a consultant he led development of MinaSearch (Rust, RocksDB, Leptos) and ran tiered Buildkite pipelines while resolving 1,300+ GitHub issues through regular pair programming — a sign of both technical depth and collaborative discipline. His open-source contributions span notable Java projects like Vaadin Flow and Jodd, focusing on refactors, generics, and documentation improvements that emphasize maintainability and code quality. Comfortable bridging backend, DevOps, and frontend concerns, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentoring and pre-sales consulting experience to translate customer requirements into production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Iowa State University - College of Business
English
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Github Skills (59)
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api-doc10
application-framework10
api-rest10
dockerce10
javascript10
docker10
webapp-framework10
utilities10
web-application10
back-end-development10
scripting10
api-design10
vaadin10
restful-api10
Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
teamatldocker/jira
Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
Dockerized Atlassian Jira
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits, 19 PRs, 67 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on the configuration and maintenance of the Dockerized Atlassian Jira project's build and deployment processes. They made frequent updates to the `buildscripts/release.sh`, `buildscripts/buildImage.sh`, and other related shell scripts to automate image builds, tagging, and releases. Their contributions involved updating Jira and Service Desk versions, switching image repositories, and improving the build and testing infrastructure, demonstrating a strong emphasis on CI/CD pipeline management within a Docker environment.
jiradockeratlassian-jiraatlassiandockerized
vaadin/flow
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Vaadin Flow is a Java framework binding Vaadin web components to Java. This is part of Vaadin 10+.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 29 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Vaadin Flow framework. Their work involved correcting Javadoc typos, refactoring code for efficiency by reusing existing methods, and resolving deployment configuration issues. They also addressed minor issues and enhanced the codebase by fixing typos across various files, including Javadoc, comments, and the POM, showing an attention to detail and a commitment to code quality.
web-componentsweb-application-frameworkvaadin-flowjavavaadin
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