John Uke
Founder at GameTree
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Uke is a founder and product-driven technologist with 12 years of experience building consumer-facing apps and teams that blend AI, psychology, and social discovery. He founded GameTree, an AI-curated platform helping over a million gamers find compatible friends and games, and previously launched NewVo and SUCCESS CARDS to turn insights into sticky products and distribution through major channels. His background spans designing scientifically-informed personality systems at TypeScience, architecting coding bootcamps, and mentoring hundreds of developers—bringing rare depth in personality psychology applied to product and team optimization. He has a track record of shipping high-engagement mobile and web experiences on limited budgets and scaling community dynamics through thoughtful UX and algorithmic curation. Based in Austin, John pairs entrepreneurial grit from Babson and Dev Bootcamp training with hands-on leadership, often restructuring teams and workflows around psychological strengths to boost performance. A less obvious strength: he brings formalized personality research into product and hiring decisions, improving both user matching and team productivity.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate for Bachelor of Science Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management, Candidate for Bachelor of Science Entrepreneurship; Strategic Management at Babson CollegeTorrey Pines High SchoolBachelor of Science Business Administration, Bachelor of Science Business Administration at University of San DiegoLund UniversityDev Bootcamp
Spanish, English, Russian
Github Skills (51)
jquery-plugin10
npm10
cordova10
nodejs10
mongodb10
tagging9
realtime9
apache-cordova9
javascript9
jquery9
build-system9
meteor9
rpc9
react9
reactive-programming9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
boblikesoup/addendum-13
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
boblikesoup/Loc8r
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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