John Tamplin
Owner at Deep Thought Games, LLC.
Smyrna, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Tamplin is a retired software engineer with 13 years of industry experience building developer tools and infrastructure at Google and Square, with deep expertise in Java, Ruby, and systems programming. His career spans hands-on roles from Unix systems and database administration to shaping web developer platforms like Google Web Toolkit, Dart, and App Engine. At Square he focused on platform engineering, core services, identities, and auth, while earlier roles combined low-level performance work and distributed systems design. He also co-runs a small handmade board game company, reflecting a practical, product-oriented mindset and an interest in craftsmanship beyond code. Based in Smyrna, Georgia, he brings a rare blend of systems-level rigor and developer-tool sensibility informed by decades of evolving infrastructure and tooling.
13 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information and Computer Science, MS Information and Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (79)
authentication10
sms10
security10
ruby10
auth10
playing10
factor10
2factor10
hardware10
gwt9
mms9
sms-messages9
django8
api8
twilio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jtamplin/chattanoogarail.org
May 2021 - Aug 2023
Chattanooga Rail Gaming Website
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
ruby-on-railsreactrailsgamingruby
jtamplin/twofactorauth
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
phonecallssmsemailfactor
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