John Baku
Founder & CEO at FetLife
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Baku is a seasoned founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building and scaling web products from Vancouver, BC. He founded and leads FetLife since 2008, combining product vision, UX leadership, and hands-on engineering background rooted in a software engineering degree from Concordia. Earlier roles spanning interface engineering, project management and UX design at companies like Organic Inc., CloudRaker and ADT show his ability to bridge design and technical delivery across Ruby on Rails and consumer-facing platforms. He has repeatedly moved between leadership and maker roles, equally comfortable sketching user flows and guiding technical teams to ship robust systems. Known on GitHub as a “keeper of the keys,” he brings a pragmatic, security-minded sensibility to running online communities. His track record reflects a mix of entrepreneurial grit, deep UX instincts, and long-term operational stewardship of a niche social platform.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Degree in Health Science, Degree in Health Science at CEGEP - John Abbott CollegeBachelor Engineering Software Engineering, Bachelor Engineering Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityHigh School, High School at West Island College
French, Greek
Github Skills (23)
redis10
feature-flags10
bonjour10
percentage10
rollout10
java9
ruby9
kotlin9
glossary9
python8
android7
design-patterns6
responsive6
opa6
frontend5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fetlife/glossary
May 2017 - Jun 2022
Kinktionary. More like guidelines and less like definitions.
Contributions:11 PRs, 7 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 1 month
pythondefinitionsguidelinesglossary
fetlife/docs
Sep 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:12 PRs, 18 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 5 months
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