John Poole
Founder And President at Primate Labs Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJohn Poole is the founder and president of Primate Labs and the creator of Geekbench, bringing over two decades of deep systems and performance engineering experience to the computer software industry. With a BMath from the University of Waterloo, he blends theoretical rigor in combinatorics and optimization with pragmatic C++, Python, OpenCL, and Ruby on Rails development. His career spans core database and performance work at Sybase and RapidMind through a long tenure at Intel, where he helped develop parallel computing platforms and led ArBB as a senior developer and Scrum Master. Entrepreneurial and technical, he turned benchmarking into a cross-platform product beloved by developers and reviewers worldwide. A retired 24-year veteran of the world's largest database company on GitHub, he still favors pragmatic tooling—Perl and Gentoo—revealing a preference for control and craftsmanship under the hood. Based in Old Toronto, he melds business development instincts with low-level optimization expertise to ship reliable, measurable software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BMath Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization, BMath Computer Science and Combinatorics & Optimization at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jlpoolen/moonfire-nvr
May 2020 - Mar 2023
Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
video-recordercamerasecuritysecurity-cameraip-camera
jlpoolen/libreveris
Nov 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 7 pushes, 15 comments in 1 year 2 months
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