John Bintz
Software Engineer at Tidelift
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bintz is a seasoned software engineer based in Baltimore with two decades of experience building web-focused systems and leading engineering teams. He blends hands-on full-stack development—Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/Vue, Go—with infrastructure and performance optimization skills honed at organizations from the Space Telescope Science Institute to Tidelift and Sonar. At Tidelift he progressed from senior engineer to staff/principal roles, managing engineers, running developer book clubs, and improving open-source package data pipelines. An active contributor to the open-source ecosystem, he helped enhance Libraries.io’s handling of deprecated packages, adding schema changes, tests, and API improvements. Known for favoring maintainable, low-complexity solutions, he also invests in the interpersonal side of engineering to mentor and scale healthy teams.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems & Visual Communication Design, BS Computer Information Systems & Visual Communication Design at Villa Julie College
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Github Skills (12)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
package-manager-tool10
ruby-rails10
open-source10
rails10
package-manager10
dependency-analysis10
ruby10
api-design9
rspec9
postgresql8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
librariesio/libraries.io
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
:books: The Open Source Discovery Service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 11 commits, 106 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the core functionality of the Libraries.io service, specifically focusing on how the system handles deprecated packages across various package managers. They implemented a system to detect and manage deprecated packages, adding new features to handle deprecation reasons and enhance the API. The user also modified the project's database schema, added tests, and refined the logic for different package managers.
dependenciesrailspackage-managerdiscoveryservice-discovery
johnbintz-tidelift/test123
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
test
Contributions:4 releases, 40 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
testing
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