A Step Into Jonathan Kowensky’s Little Code World
Primarily based in sunny South Africa, Jonathan Kowensky — higher referred to as Joni — is our great Senior Developer. As a thrill seeker with distinctive puzzle-solving expertise and a thirst for information, Joni is, what we’d name, a king of all trades.
Computing has all the time been a ardour for Joni, who has been taking part in with — and even constructing — computer systems since he was 14 years-old. It took no time earlier than he was delving into coding, learning the fundamentals on the early age of 16. Now, Joni will get to construct new web sites from scratch, conduct web site velocity evaluation and optimization, and, when given the chance, create cool animations!
However software program improvement isn’t his solely ardour. Earlier than changing into a Senior Developer at Brafton, he studied bodily rehabilitation and obtained intensive {qualifications} within the well being business, from diet, train science, post-op rehabilitation to most cancers rehabilitation. And he nonetheless discovered methods to include his technical expertise into his function as a bodily coach, growing an AI private coaching cellular utility for high-risk purchasers referred to as reAnimate.
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Working Amongst Creatives
Earlier than touchdown his present place at Brafton, Joni was eager to work inside a big workforce that assigned ever-changing improvement tasks regularly. With our wide selection of purchasers, it’s protected to say Joni received precisely what he was searching for.
Shopper satisfaction is what drives Joni’s motivation at Brafton. Each single shopper undertaking is somebody’s precedence and he understands what it means to them. That’s why there’s nothing extra satisfying to him than making somebody’s concepts a actuality. He likes to view his work as shaping a “little code world” the place each facet is recognized, managed and managed.
“I like working with such good, skilled and enjoyable folks; with an unlimited variety in tradition and nationality.” He provides, “I actually benefit from the variation in tasks at Brafton and being a part of such a strong and heat household.”
Moreover, regardless of having a largely technical function, Joni nonetheless will get to flex his artistic facet.
“It’s nice working with the creatives. We’ve got our role-specific quirks and really feel that we see eye to eye very effectively. Though I’ve used the road ‘don’t belief the dev with fairly’ up to now, I do really feel that within the moments the place purchasers depart some room for creativeness, I’m additionally a artistic.”

Exercising the Thoughts
Joni’s impressively massive financial institution of data didn’t simply seem in a single day. He’s been absorbing copious quantities of data for years.
“The primary non-school ebook I learn was Graham Hancock’s Orion Thriller. My grandmother gave it to me after I was 16 and boy was it a troublesome learn. This opened my ardour into learning theosophy, psychology, philosophy anthropology and esotericism. She taught me to ask ‘whats’ and ‘whys’ — she opened my thoughts a lot that it nearly fell out.”
Joni as soon as needed to spend a month in a library researching Einstein, Martin Buber, Mahatma Gandhi and Jan Smuts’ communications for a south african authorities heritage undertaking the place Mahatma Gandhi perfected Satyagraha (passive resistance). Apparently, he can nonetheless scent these previous papers.
Now, Joni workouts his thoughts each week with coding riddles and challenges — asking the ‘whats’ and ‘whys’ — and breaking down the puzzles piece by piece. He prides himself in his neuro linguistic programming capabilities; so far as coding goes, Joni primarily makes use of PHP, Sass (CSS), HTML, Javascript and jQuery on a machine working on Linux.
The challenges don’t cease there. Joni’s conquered practically each factor, taking up wild stunts, reminiscent of fireplace spinning, water snowboarding, strolling on scorching coals and summiting Kilimanjaro — at this level, he’s confirmed to be anybody’s first alternative as a zombie apocalypse companion. Regardless of these huge achievements, the most important ongoing problem for Joni is having the ability to discover an object he’s searching for when it’s sitting proper in entrance of him.
Joni describes himself in the best way he hopes others would, a caring, hard-working however easygoing one who might most likely afford to discover ways to keep away from cracking jokes on the incorrect time. Each personally and professionally, he’s all the time prepared to supply a serving to hand, and he works laborious to grasp all views and realities at any given second. These embody his personal views, these of individuals concerned and the reality that lies between.
On the finish of a working day, you’ll discover Joni both peacefully tending to his herb and vegetable backyard, binge watching the most recent acclaimed TV collection or competing towards anybody who stands in his means in oculus paintball.