Donald Bales
Certified Master Gardener, Yavapai County, Arizona at Donald Bales, Contractor
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonald Bales is a pragmatic technology leader and hands-on architect with over 40 years of professional experience and a proven track record of delivering complex enterprise systems on time and under budget. He blends deep expertise in object-oriented design, service-oriented architecture and full-stack development—spanning Node, Python/Django, Ruby on Rails, Java JEE and major RDBMS—with extensive IT project and team leadership. Donald has driven measurable outcomes such as dramatic Akeneo PIM performance improvements and led GIS and IoT software efforts at national labs, often learning new domains rapidly to solve real-world problems. An author on Oracle and Java topics and an active maintainer of open-source IoT experimentation, he mentors developers and translates business needs into robust, maintainable solutions. Based in Sedona, he also applies his curiosity and systems-thinking to horticulture as a Certified Master Gardener, reflecting a practical, interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
AS Electronics Technology, AS Electronics Technology at College of DuPageBS Business, BS Business at Elmhurst University
Spanish
Github Skills (40)
ziggy9
devrel9
django9
information-management9
backbonejs9
php9
gis9
application8
python8
pim8
akeneo8
symfony8
product-management8
sdi8
wfs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
donaldbales/ecospec
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:121 commits, 63 pushes in 10 months
donaldbales/node-akeneo
Nov 2019 - Nov 2022
Interfaces and modules to access Akeneo from its web API
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 3 years 1 month
interfacesapiakeneoweb-api
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