John Stamatakos
Director, Software Engineering at Indeed.com
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Stamatakos is a Director of Software Engineering based in Austin with over a decade of experience leading teams to build scalable, client-facing platforms. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack and front-end roles to senior leadership at The Knot Worldwide and Indeed, shaping architectural vision for transactional and virtual interview platforms. Known for growing engineering orgs and mentoring talent, he has managed squads, people managers, and cross-functional roadmaps while evangelizing best practices and developer community engagement. He combines pragmatic technical depth—microservices, AWS, React/React Native, Kubernetes—with product-minded execution that delivered high-rated mobile apps and resilient APIs. Notably, he founded a local tech meetup to amplify knowledge sharing and hiring pipelines in Austin, reflecting a commitment to community-building beyond day-to-day engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at DeSales UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Psychology at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (2)
golang3
cli3
Github contributions (5)
johnstamatakos/personal-site
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
johnstamatakos/chelsea-bot
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 11 months
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