John Barker is a senior software engineering manager with nearly two decades of technical experience and over a decade in product-focused engineering roles, currently leading engineering at re:Members. He has deep full-stack expertise—building scalable invoicing, search (Elasticsearch), ETL pipelines (Redshift, RethinkDB changefeeds) and containerized CI/CD systems—demonstrated by a platform that processed over $1M in transactions. A former principal and senior engineer at ChapterSpot and co-founder of a social-impact startup, he blends hands-on development with team leadership and product sensibility. His background includes API leadership and mobile push systems, plus practical systems work from early web projects to modern cloud stacks. A Marine Corps aviation electrician veteran, he brings disciplined troubleshooting and operational rigor to software reliability and on-call processes. Based in Dryden, NY, he pairs entrepreneurial initiative with a pragmatic focus on scalable, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at San Francisco State University
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