John Bickar
Manager, Development Operations
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bickar is a seasoned development operations manager with 14 years of hands-on web engineering experience and a long tenure at Stanford University, where he now leads full‑stack teams responsible for complex CMSs and campus-wide web infrastructure. He blends deep Drupal, PHP, LAMP, Docker, AWS, and automation expertise with a strong focus on security, accessibility, and reliable deployment pipelines. Known for mentoring engineers and shaping strategic roadmaps, he connects day-to-day operations to longer-term resource and risk planning across distributed technical groups. His background in education technology and an Ed.M. in Technology, Innovation, and Education informs a user-centered approach to tooling and training that improves adoption and reduces incidents. A former resident athlete and early-career technologist, he brings discipline, experiential leadership, and a talent for translating ambiguous institutional needs into pragmatic, auditable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ed.M., Technology, Innovation, and Education, Ed.M., Technology, Innovation, and Education at Harvard UniversityB.S., Architecture, B.S., Architecture at University of Virginia
php, javascript, css, html, sarcasm
Github Skills (91)
behat10
circleci10
symfony-console10
content-type10
drupal-module10
prompt10
cli10
drupal-theme10
integrate10
scripting10
knife10
drupal10
psysh10
kss10
php10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SU-SWS/linky_clicky
Jul 2014 - Mar 2020
Behat tests mean death to linky-clicky
Contributions:574 commits, 96 PRs, 309 pushes in 5 years 8 months
behatbehat-testsdeathlinky
SU-SWS/stanford_conference
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
A lightweight conference display Feature
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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