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Jon has nearly 40 years of professional software development, with over 30 years of leading, growing, mentoring, encouraging and supporting software delivery teams to be successful.

Jon has experience in a variety of business domains, covering health, research and development, banking and finance, and the ever-present web enabled dual-sided marketplaces.

Jon is one of the original authors of BouncyCastle, the widely used Java Cryptography library, used in and with mobile devices, enterprise software and games.

Jon also designed the Toy Robot programming problem, and has been amazed how widely it has been used in workplaces, and how distant the evaluation criteria have become from the original intent.

Upcoming conference sessions featuring Jon Eaves

How I learned to manage technical debt without talking about it

Managing technical debt is a challenge for many organisations. The technical subject matter experts (engineering) often are unable to communicate the state of the technology to business stakeholders, leading to unsatisfactory project outcomes, unmet expectations and an erosion of trust between groups in the same organisation.

This talk outlines a number of approaches that I have applied over the years to collaborate with business and senior engineering stakeholders (the people with the money) each of them incrementally assisting with communication, and the realisation that "technical debt" is a source of "business risk" for the organisation, and engineering teams can use this to collaborate with greater clarity and success.

Tuesday Jun 16 @ 09:35 @ YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Melbourne 2026

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How I learned to manage technical debt without talking about it

Managing technical debt is a challenge for many organisations. The technical subject matter experts (engineering) often are unable to communicate the state of the technology to business stakeholders, leading to unsatisfactory project outcomes, unmet expectations and an erosion of trust between groups in the same organisation.

This talk outlines a number of approaches that I have applied over the years to collaborate with business and senior engineering stakeholders (the people with the money) each of them incrementally assisting with communication, and the realisation that "technical debt" is a source of "business risk" for the organisation, and engineering teams can use this to collaborate with greater clarity and success.

Wednesday Jun 17 @ 09:30 @ YOW! Tech Leaders Summit Brisbane 2026

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