JASPER BLUES

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ABOUT ME

About me in 10 seconds? I love Neo4j and graph databases. I founded Typhoon, which powers thousands of notable iOS applications. I was a con

About me in 10 seconds? I love Neo4j and graph databases. I founded Typhoon, which powers thousands of notable iOS applications. I was a contributor to the SpringFramework.

As a kid, I would build radios, boolean circuits, amplifiers and things out of spare parts. I started programming on an Apple II, aged nine and it wasn't long before I had vector graphics flying around in 6502 assembly language. I've always loved this stuff.

Today, I enjoy the creative utilisation of technology to achieve solutions in business. Whilst translating business requirements into technical solutions, I strive to impart capability and maturity by mentoring staff on best practices.

During my 20 year career as a polyglot programmer I have applied passion and expertise in industry sectors such as banking, government, intelligence, marketing, performing arts and entertainment.

I am also a distinguished open-source contributor: At SpringSource, I contributed to the Spring Framework, which revolutionised enterprise Java. I founded Typhoon, which has been installed over 2 million times and powers thousands of iOS applications. I’ve created various libraries and utilities used in products by made by Microsoft, Apple and Yandex.

Most of my current open-source work is at: https://github.com/appsquickly, but stay tuned for new developments here: https://github.com/liberation-data

English

Brisbane (+10:00)

Joined December 2018

EXPERTISE

Neo4j

3 years experience

I created a Neo4j-powered social network for musicians and music lovers that included a proprietary recommendation engine to match like-m...

I created a Neo4j-powered social network for musicians and music lovers that included a proprietary recommendation engine to match like-minded candidates, which number 400,000 today, and growing. I created the architectural framework, and proved the case for graph, on behalf of a joint venture company - an Australian company that specialises in digital transformation in sports, and a sporting governance body. I was a contributor, and for a tenure period, the lead developer on Spring Data Neo4j, an official open-source framework for using Neo4j in Java powered applications. I have conducted training and run meetups on behalf of Neo Technology in India, the United Arab Emirates and SE Asia. I'm a Neo4j certified developer with a score of 99.2%.

iOS

10 years experience

I have an international reputation in applying architectural rigour and agile engineering practices in the mobile development community. ...

I have an international reputation in applying architectural rigour and agile engineering practices in the mobile development community. I founded Typhoon, which powers thousands of iOS applications, including Audible.com, Singapore Airlines, AMEX and many others. I have created, indivudually and with teams numerous 'AppStore Best Apps', such as a social network for like-minded musicians and music lovers, and ACO Virtual, a 3D interactive recreation of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Objective-C Swift Test driven development

Objective-C Swift Test driven development BDD TypeScript GraphQL

Java

20 years experience

I have been a developer on the Java platform - Java and related JVM languages, for over 20 years. I was fortunate to work with SpringSou...

I have been a developer on the Java platform - Java and related JVM languages, for over 20 years. I was fortunate to work with SpringSource, and contribute to the Spring Framework, alongside colleagues who were voted among the top 100 influencers in technology.

Software architectsKotlin Spring Boot

Software architectsKotlin Spring Boot Spring

NestJS

2 years experience

I have been working with NestJS for several years. I selected this framework as it combined most of the design patterns that I was previo...

I have been working with NestJS for several years. I selected this framework as it combined most of the design patterns that I was previously employing with separate frameworks - TypeDI, Routing Controllers and others. I led a team to re-architect a large payments system on NestJS in oder to address maintainability and performance concerns, after the company signed several Fortune100 clients. I received high commendation for the success of this project, particularly as performance improved from ~2000ms to 63ms response times. I created DRIVINE.ORG a NestJS open-source framework to support graph-database powered applications, and wrote about it here: https://neo4j.com/blog/introducing-drivine-graph-database-client-for-node-js-and-typescript/ Prior working with NestJS, I was a contributor to the Spring Framework. The SpringFramework spearheaded many of the design patterns used in NestJS and Angular.

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

15 years experience

I've been working with Postgres for many years, recently in a more in-depth fashion. During 2019, I re-architected a Postgres-backed pa...

I've been working with Postgres for many years, recently in a more in-depth fashion. During 2019, I re-architected a Postgres-backed payments platform that was exhibiting poor maintainability and performance. The new system featured response times of 63ms vs ~!2000 in the old, and utilized well-known design patterns.

Agensgraph

Spring

15 years experience

I was an early employee of SpringSource and contributor to the Spring Framework. More recently I have been a contributor on Spring Data...

I was an early employee of SpringSource and contributor to the Spring Framework. More recently I have been a contributor on Spring Data Neo4j.

Node.js

5 years experience

I have been working with NodeJS since 2015, in depth since 2017. I was Lead Architect on Vampr, a social network for musicians and musi...

I have been working with NodeJS since 2015, in depth since 2017. I was Lead Architect on Vampr, a social network for musicians and music lovers, and helped scale the application to 400,000 users and growing. In 2019 I was Lead for MSTS a B2B payments company, helping to rearchitect their payments platform in order to address maintainability and performance concerns. The result was a new system with response times of 63ms compared to the previous ~2000ms. I have created several open-source projects for NodeJS, including DRIVINE.ORG.

TypeScript React Native

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

Round-and-Round-Kit

3D rotating view additions for UINavigationController

Objective-C

ICLoader

A simple frosty loader / progress HUD.

Objective-C

Stack Overflow

18204 Reputation

148

Community Posts

DEPENDENCY INJECTION FOR OBJECTIVE-C & SWIFT, WITH TYPHOON

Learn about Dependency Injection and Typhoon, which supports this design pattern. Today there are some very good pure Swift DI libs, meanwhile it Typhoon is used in over 6000 apps. These include Amex, Accor Hotels, Audible.com, Etihad, easyJet, Grindr, Hootsuite, Lazada, Kobo, Shalom and Singapore Airlines.

EMPLOYMENTS

Founder & Owner

Liberation Data

2018-11-01-Present

Liberation Data, an Australian incorporated and globally expanding company, is a team of data scientists, architects and engineers skille...

Liberation Data, an Australian incorporated and globally expanding company, is a team of data scientists, architects and engineers skilled in the practical applications of network science. We can help you to extract insight from and form business processes around graph-shaped data.

Java

Node.js

Neo4j

Java

Node.js

Neo4j

TypeScript

Kotlin

GraphQL

RESTful API

Lead Architect

Vampr

2016-01-01-Present

Vampr is a rapidly growing social and mobile application that allows like-minded musicians and music lovers to connect and collaborate....

Vampr is a rapidly growing social and mobile application that allows like-minded musicians and music lovers to connect and collaborate. It aims to provide a platform and eco-system for brands and creative professionals to reach their target audiences. I created the iOS, web-app backend architectures, then assembled the team that successfully executed. I implemented a proprietary recommendation engine, using the Neo4j, graph databases and network theory to succesfully match like-minded candidates. I scaled the backend to support 400,000 users, 150 transactions per second, and growing.

Node.js

Neo4j

TypeScript

Node.js

Neo4j

TypeScript

Kotlin

Objective-C

Swift

iOS

AppsQuick.ly

Founder & Owner

2011-10-01-Present

AppsQuick.ly is a niche services firm. The team consists of internationally-sourced first-rate software developers, with supplementary sk...

AppsQuick.ly is a niche services firm. The team consists of internationally-sourced first-rate software developers, with supplementary skills in audio and visual media. We serve creative firms to provide robust implementations of great ideas. In the community, we lead several open-source projects, such as Typhoon, which powers thousands of iOS applications. We have played a leadership role, since 2011, in the adoption of Agile engineering practices in the mobile development community, and are regularly invited to speak at conferences and to consult internationally on this topic.

Node.js

OpenCV

Node.js

OpenCV

OpenGL

TypeScript

Kotlin

Objective-C

React Native

Swift

iOS

PROJECTS

Typhoon FrameworkView Project

2013

I am the founder of Typhoon, which is a dependency injection library for iOS. It is used in thousands of iOS applications.

Objective-C

iOS

Objective-C

iOS

Spring Data Neo4jView Project

2016

I was a contributor to Spring Data Neo4j, on behalf of GraphAware.

Java

Spring

Neo4j

Java

Spring

Neo4j