John Gills
Engineering Manager, Accounts Integration
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Gills is an experienced engineering manager and solutions architect with over 15 years building and scaling backend platforms across ecommerce, fintech, martech, and data engineering. Currently leading backend teams at FlightAware and advising as Solutions Architect at Swank Canvas, he blends hands-on development (Go, Python, IaC) with strategic leadership from startup to public-company contexts. He has driven product and revenue transformations—launching patented payment solutions, growing mobile B2B revenue significantly, and unifying disparate systems into centralized engines—while owning compliance programs (SOC, SOX, PCI, NACHA, TCPA). A pragmatic player/coach, he modernizes legacy services, introduces observability and CI/CD, and reduces incidents through tighter SaaS orchestration. Based in Austin and cofounder of the South Florida Kubernetes Meetup, he pairs a disciplined, literature-informed leadership style with a track record of translating complex technical risk into investor-ready, auditable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Education, BS, Education at University of South Florida
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Github Skills (24)
payment-service8
flow-control8
payment-methods7
payment-integration7
payment-gateway7
payment7
async-await6
redhat6
pear6
monolog6
laminas5
observables5
async5
javascript4
decryption4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FlexShopper/docs
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
channelsdeveloper-documentation
FlexShopper/FLEXPRICE
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Weekly Payment Method Integration Documentation
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
paymentspayment-servicepayment-methodsmethodpayment-method
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