Jonathan Mitchell

Jonathan Mitchell is a Director and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Cyber Security Startup Shadow Detect. Prior to this role, he served as the Head of Technology at Adeogroup in Glasgow, where he managed in-house and remote development and support teams, oversaw various aspects of technology projects, and researched future platforms for the company. Jonathan led onboarding, training, and mentoring initiatives for the development and support teams at Adeo. He introduced significant tools and methodologies like SCM (svn and then git), CI (continuous integration) using GitLab, custom deployment scripts, testing, and Kanban project management into the dev team.

Jonathan's expertise spans a wide range of technical areas including Linux server security and administration, programming in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and jQuery, API systems integration, and DevOps practices. His experience includes planning, designing, and specifying bespoke e-commerce systems for numerous clients, as well as conducting security testing and maintaining various codebases. Jonathan is well-versed in systems architecture, systems planning, e-commerce, content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, and search engine optimization (SEO).

In terms of education, Jonathan Mitchell holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Advanced Computer Systems Design, a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Electronics, and has studied HND in Sound Production and HNC in Sound Production. He has also pursued certifications including CCNA from Cisco and has a strong command over programming languages like PHP, JavaScript, UNIX Shell Scripting (BASH), MySQL, along with familiarity with Perl and Python. Jonathan's diverse skill set includes CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering), which supplements his proficiency in critical areas such as system architecture, systems planning, and web technologies.