Joe Bateson
Software Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Bateson is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently focused on web infrastructure at Yelp where he builds AST transformations, performance optimizations, and developer experience improvements to keep Yelp.com fast and stable. He spans front-end and back-end concerns, having shipped features across multiple Yelp teams and earlier internships that involved large-scale data work and full-stack web apps. Joe favors fast, maintainable, and delightful software, and enjoys making developer workflows safer and easier to use. Based in San Francisco and Cambridge-educated in Computer Science, he combines production-grade engineering with an experimental maker mentality evident from early startup and open projects. A practical problem-solver, he brings both deep implementation skills and a habit of improving developer DX that quietly accelerates teams.
13 years of coding experience
Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Art and Design, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Art and Design at Esher CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 2:1, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 2:1 at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (200)
parser10
swc10
hot-reload10
filename10
trunk10
dockerfile10
linter10
refactoring10
javascript10
subresource-integrity10
dynamic-import10
ecmascript10
json10
webworker10
npm-cli10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
polybit/radio
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:82 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
jdb8/pre-commit
Nov 2015 - Aug 2023
A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
lintermulti-languagepre-commitrefactoringcommit-hooks
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