Tate Barber
Engineering Manager at Invitation Homes
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTate Barber is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading full-stack teams across large enterprises and high-growth consumer products. He blends hands-on backend and frontend expertise with a track record of shipping performant architectures—such as a headless Shopify implementation yielding <1s page loads—and driving CI/CD, testing, and accessibility practices. Tate has led teams of 30+ engineers, introduced domain-driven design and serverless, event-sourced patterns at scale, and reduced costs through pragmatic platform work like CMS-driven label rendering at Walmart. An empathetic coach and communicator, he closes gaps between product, UX, and engineering via public office hours, demo days, and regular refactoring sessions. He’s also an active open-source contributor to notable projects like grpc-node, where he improved proto-loader robustness and modularity. Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, he balances engineering leadership with life as a developer, husband, father, and outdoorsman.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Little Rock Christian AcademyBachelor of Music Piano Performance, Bachelor of Music Piano Performance at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (13)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
javascript10
parsing10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
nodejs9
testing8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-node
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
gRPC for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Tate's contributions primarily involve enhancing the `proto-loader` package within the `grpc-node` repository. They implemented functionality to load and parse binary-encoded file descriptor sets, refactored the `loadFileDescriptorSetFile` function to handle both Buffer and Javascript object inputs and enabled it to parse JSON files. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to improve error handling and split the file descriptor set loading logic into utility functions for improved modularity.
node-jsgrpcgrpc-webnodejstypescript
tatemz/remix-strong-routes
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
Remix utilities for building strongly typed routes.
Contributions:15 releases, 4 reviews, 6 PRs in 7 months
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