John Polling
Co-founder CTO at Yard Ops
Hull, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Polling is a seasoned software leader and Co-founder/CTO with 18 years building scalable web, mobile and IoT platforms for clients such as Siemens, KPMG, Channel 4 and Santander UK. Based in Hull, he leads Sauce’s award-winning team to design data-heavy, production-grade IoT systems that scale to large user bases and high-volume telemetry. An entrepreneur at heart, he has launched multiple products and startups—including Yard Ops and I'm In App—combining hands-on engineering with product vision. He frequently shares practical tooling and architecture lessons with developer and business audiences, reflecting a penchant for knowledge-sharing. Comfortable across the full stack and cloud-native ecosystems, he pairs pragmatic delivery with an eye for long-term, maintainable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
2:2 Hons BSc Computing Science, 2:2 Hons BSc Computing Science at Aston University
Stackoverflow
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18answers
17questions
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Github Skills (117)
previews10
payment-gateway10
dropzone10
file-upload10
payment-integration10
payment10
adyen10
square10
payment-processing10
architecture9
spree9
drag9
abstraction9
drag-and-drop9
data-structures9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sauce-consultants/ecto_uk_postcode
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Ecto extension to support UK Postcodes in models
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
postcodesecto-extensionelixirecto
pollingj/jQuery-Mobile-SASS
Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
Contributions:84 commits in 1 year 2 months
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