Colin Jones

Software Craftsman

Colin began his career building web applications with Ruby on Rails and semantic XHTML/CSS before starting his apprenticeship at 8th Light.

As an apprentice, he worked in Ruby, Java, Scheme, and Scala, and learned test driven development along with design patterns.

While becoming a better programmer, Colin blogged extensively about his apprenticeship experience and was soon offered a full-time position as a software craftsman.

Colin is particularly interested in functional programming, using languages like Clojure, and has worked on a myriad of open source projects including: Clojure Koans, Toga and keypressr.

He has also worked on Leiningen, the most popular build tool for Clojure, and has made small contributions to JRuby, Clojure, Speclj, Limelight, Rails Engines, and Wikipedia’s Mobile site.

In 2010, he gave talks on Clojure at Agile Conf. and Chicago Code Camp.

Colin received a Bachelor’s in Musical Arts and Mathematics (2002) from Vanderbilt University and a Master’s in Trumpet Performance (2004) from the University of Georgia.