Jack Barker
Director at Robot Rampage
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolJack Barker is a Director and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and front-end systems, having held engineering roles at AWS, Microsoft (IoT Central), and Air New Zealand. He currently leads Robot Rampage, a multidisciplinary engineering firm in Auckland, and directs the BattleBots team End Game, blending product delivery with hands-on hardware and systems engineering. His technical breadth spans Node, React, Go and .NET, and he brings practical experience shipping scalable IoT and web platforms in both enterprise and startup contexts. Known for translating complex system requirements into reliable implementations, he pairs leadership and team-building with a maker’s mindset—literally building combat robots that have appeared on BattleBots. That unusual combination of production software experience and competitive robotics informs a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to engineering and product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Auckland
Stackoverflow
105reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (30)
azure-iothub10
azure-iot-edge10
azure-iot-central10
azure-iot-dps10
opc9
cicd9
azure-cli9
command-line9
azure9
cli8
iot8
command-line-interface7
data-models7
dart6
firebase6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Jackbk/azure-iot-cli-extension
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Azure IoT extension for Azure CLI
Contributions:15 PRs, 76 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
azure-iot-extensionazure-iotiot-extensionazureiot
Jackbk/VEX
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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