John Bannister
Senior Developer at Bookshop
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Bannister is a Senior Developer based in London with a decade of hands-on experience building and leading web engineering efforts across startups and agencies. He’s currently shaping backend and full-stack work at Bookshop after roles at thoughtbot and multiple technical positions at Farmdrop where he progressed from SDET to Tech Lead. Known as an "accidental web developer," he combines pragmatic engineering with product-minded thinking, often bridging QA, backend systems, and team leadership. His background in theatre studies gives him an unusual strength in storytelling and stakeholder communication, helping technical work connect to user outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Theatre Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Theatre Studies at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (114)
turbolinks10
dialogue-systems10
heroku10
single-page10
defaults10
crossword10
rails10
edward10
tufte10
rpg9
hotel-booking9
turbo9
api9
lucky-framework9
crud9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jdbann/thousand
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:69 PRs, 132 pushes, 70 branches in 5 months
jdbann/processing-forestry
Sep 2019 - Nov 2024
Lumberjacks for distributed systems
Contributions:1 release, 19 PRs, 60 pushes in 5 years 3 months
distributed-systemsdistributed
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