About
Johnathan Irby is a tech enthusiast with more than 2 decades of experience in various facets of software development. As a hobbyist, he builds and repairs PCs, creates mobile phone apps, develops video games for various platforms and studies the blockchain technology behind cryptocurrencies among many other interests.
As a professional, he has built and maintained web applications for nearly a decade as a developer at several large corporations and local startups. He has touched practically all parts of a project both large and small as a developer and project manager since acquiring his PMP© Project Management Professional Certification. Although primarily working as an application developer, his extensive experience is spread across multiple hats & technologies including database administration, providing on-call support, code deployment, utilization of remote servers (Windows and Unix) and more. Johnathan continues to further expand both his technical and general knowledge in order to quench his thirst to learn by way of experimenting with new languages, frameworks, engines and books.
Outside of work, Johnathan is a devoted father. This role further drive him to accomplish his goals and do whatever it takes to make sure that his family is well taken care of. He is extremely proud of all his children regarding their own great accomplishments and those to come.
Some of his accomplishments include:
Self published a book on achieving PMP Certification
Increased an employer's profits by nearly $20 million per year
Nominated for tED (the Electric Distributor) Magazine's “30 Under 35”
Created phone apps that received 30k+ downloads
Mentoring college students looking to get in the Software Development field
Speaking at high school Career Day events to spread awareness about the Software Development career path
Received free development hardware in exchange for creating an app
Won a 4K contest for creating an entertaining PC game with a size under 4 kilobytes
Multiple Dean's list recipient in college
Among the top 10% of his high school graduating class
Founded JetClassic, a videogame studio
Below are some of the programming languages/technologies that Johnathan is familiar with:
PL/SQL
Openedge Progress
Html
Javascript
CSS
Jquery
Java
C#
C
Python
PHP
Angular
Perl
Unity
Unix
jquery
Oracle 11g
SVN
Visual Studio