Joe Yates
Consultant at Joe Yates
Florence, Italy
Summary
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RockstarJoe Yates is a seasoned consultant and engineering leader with 16 years of experience building resilient, high-scale systems from Florence, Italy. He has led technical strategy and migrations as a CTO—most notably moving teams from Ruby on Rails to Elixir/Phoenix and designing autoscaling, fault-tolerant APIs at DatoCMS that proved capable of handling 200k concurrent connections. Joe combines hands-on backend and systems architecture skills (C++, Elixir, distributed services) with a track record of mentoring teams, instituting developer processes, and contributing to open source—fixing bugs and improving developer experience in the Elixir ecosystem and authoring the imap-backup tool for real-world email migrations. He’s comfortable bridging research-grade control systems (quantum experiments) and production SaaS, and he brings a pragmatic emphasis on observability, testing and developer workflows that reduces operational surprises.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (15)
serialization10
option-parser10
leex10
parser10
data-serialization10
opt10
par10
parse10
imap10
elixir10
documentation10
ruby10
testing9
json9
rspec8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
joeyates/imap-backup
Jun 2012 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:34 releases, 11 reviews, 998 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the `imap-backup` project, focused on backing up and migrating IMAP email accounts. They implemented filtering for accounts within the settings, introduced the ability to get local and remote status information, and modified the code to handle the message with mbox format and its serialization. The user also improved the error handling and did some code refactoring.
mailsmtpemailrubyaccounts
elixir-lang/elixir
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 5 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the Elixir codebase by fixing documentation issues, correcting typos, and improving clarity within the module documentation. They also addressed a bug related to option parser incompatibilities and ensured the test suite tested the correct assignment metadata. Furthermore, they modified and improved the error messages generated by the EEx module. Their work demonstrates a focus on code quality, documentation accuracy, and improving the overall developer experience.
functional-languagescalablefunctional-programmingelixircompiler
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