resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Jon Neale Clay",
    "label": "Engineering Leader",
    "image": "",
    "email": "jonneale@gmail.com",
    "phone": "",
    "url": "https://github.com/jonneale",
    "summary": "Engineering and technology leader with extensive experience in software, data, and analytics across large-scale consumer platforms, including building and managing high-performing teams and delivering resilient, data-driven solutions.",
    "location": {
      "address": "London, UK",
      "postalCode": "",
      "city": "London",
      "countryCode": "UK",
      "region": ""
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "GitHub",
        "username": "jonneale",
        "url": "https://github.com/jonneale"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
  {
    "name": "Uswitch",
    "position": "Head of Engineering",
    "url": "https://www.uswitch.com",
    "startDate": "2019-10",
    "summary": "Responsible for engineering, data, and analytics across the Uswitch organisation.",
    "highlights": [
      "Led engineering, data, and analytics for millions of customers across energy, broadband, and mobiles comparison, including Confused.com.",
      "Managed over 50 engineers and 14 analysts, focusing on team health and process improvements.",
      "Grew Utrack energy management proposition from scratch to 100,000+ customers, with 60,000 connected to smart meters.",
      "Oversaw consumer and partner-facing technical solutions handling massive traffic events like Black Friday.",
      "Ingested and analysed petabyte-scale energy consumption data across hundreds of thousands of meter points annually.",
      "Reported directly to Group CTO, leading businesses generating £100m+ revenue.",
      "Core technologies: JS (React, Astro, Node/Deno/Bun), Clojure, Python, Ruby, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GraphQL, BigQuery, DBT."
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Uswitch",
    "position": "Head of Technology - Energy",
    "startDate": "2019-01",
    "endDate": "2019-10",
    "summary": "Led technical delivery of the largest business unit in the group.",
    "highlights": [
      "Delivered £60m+ annual revenue through technical leadership.",
      "Oversaw rewrite of core consumer apps from Ruby to React/Typescript.",
      "Rebuilt delivery teams post-company acquisition."
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Uswitch",
    "position": "Principal Software Engineer",
    "startDate": "2017-08",
    "endDate": "2019-01",
    "summary": "Led re-imagining and rollout of technical platforms for Uswitch.",
    "highlights": [
      "Clojure, Ruby, Javascript, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.",
      "Built platform to support UK’s leading energy comparison site, handling 1,000+ requests per second."
    ]
  },
  {
      "highlights": [
        "Clojure, Ruby, Rails, C#, nginx, Postgresql, Mysql, MongoDB, Redis, AWS",
        "Lead dev on Uswitch's credit card product. Took an ageing .Net platform and rewrote in Rails, increasing maintainability and pace of delivery.",
        "Key member of energy back office team which revolutionised operational stability, rewriting a number of core apps in Clojure."
      ],
      "name": "Uswitch",
      "position": "Lead Developer",
      "endDate": "2017-08",
      "startDate": "2011-12",
      "summary": "Lead multiple engineering teams across the Uswitch organisation"
    },
    {
      "highlights": [
        "Ruby on Rails, Shopify, nginx, Postgresql, Mysql",
        "This startup incubated with Uswitch's parent company was centred around targeting ultra-niche ppc terms around pet supplies, and testing consumer appetite by spinning up an online shop to serve those needs, drop-shipping products when ordered from Amazon. Sucessful shops became sites in their own right.  As a member of a small dev team (2-3), I was responsible for reacting to consumer demand, developing, opening and optimising sites based on interest, and improving the inventory management system when we eventually purchased a warehouse."
      ],
      "summary": "Lead development on an incubated e-commerce startup",
      "name": "Just Shops (Uswitch)",
      "position": "Lead Developer",
      "startDate": "2011-03",
      "endDate": "2011-12"
    },
    {
      "name": "Uswitch",
      "position": "Software Engineer",
      "website": "",
      "startDate": "2008-03",
      "endDate": "2011-03",
      "highlights": [
        "C#, Javascript, MSSQL, IIS 6/7"
      ]
    }
],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Sussex",
      "url": "https://www.sussex.ac.uk/",
      "area": "Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems",
      "studyType": "MSc",
      "startDate": "2006-09-01",
      "endDate": "2007-07-01",
      "score": "With Merit"
    },
    {
      "institution": "University of Sussex",
      "url": "https://www.sussex.ac.uk/",
      "area": "Artificial Intelligence",
      "studyType": "BA (Hons)",
      "startDate": "2003-09-01",
      "endDate": "2006-07-01",
      "score": "First Class"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Software Engineering & Leadership",
      "level": "Expert",
      "keywords": [
        "JavaScript (React, Node, Astro, Deno, Bun)",
        "Clojure",
        "Python",
        "Ruby",
        "C#",
        "PostgreSQL",
        "AWS",
        "Kubernetes",
        "Docker",
        "Terraform",
        "GraphQL",
        "BigQuery",
        "DBT"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [],
  "awards": [],
  "volunteer": [],
  "certificates": [],
  "publications": [],
  "languages": [
    {
      "language": "English",
      "fluency": "Native speaker"
    }
  ],
  "interests": [],
  "references": []
}