John Bates
Staff Software Engineer at Lightspeed Commerce
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bates is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, maintainable systems and automating build and deployment pipelines. He specializes in backend microservices and containerized architectures, with deep expertise in scaling authentication and authorization services to sub-millisecond responses and five‑nines availability. His work spans foundational tooling and significant UI applications, and he takes pride in hardware, code, and docs that remain in production years after delivery. Past roles at Zendesk, LinkedIn, Amazon and Lightspeed reflect a track record of reliability, performance tuning and operational ownership across large-scale distributed systems. Based in Vancouver, Washington, he also brings hands-on consulting experience solving extreme peak-load and migration challenges for clients.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Central QueenslandBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Senior Certificate Maths/Science, Senior Certificate Maths/Science at Capalaba High School
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Github Skills (115)
jenkins-plugin10
command-line-tool10
giter810
golang10
sbt-plugin10
cli10
git10
scoverage10
iphone10
github-api-v410
inventory-management9
django9
sql9
inventory-management-system9
github-repos9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/scalastyle_config
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
The Scalastyle configuration we use for our in-house Scala projects
Contributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
scalascalastylecompile-timelintercode-style
devstuff/laptop-bootstrap
Aug 2020 - Apr 2026
Contributions:18 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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