Tate Johnson
CTO at The Lookout Way
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolTate Johnson is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Brisbane with 17 years’ experience building and scaling web and mobile platforms for healthcare and consumer IoT. He founded the platforms behind Five Good Friends and The Lookout Way, growing engineering teams and turning care-focused product vision into a SaaS used by 70+ aged care and NDIS providers across Australia. Tate combines hands-on engineering chops with executive leadership—leading product and engineering to deliver high NPS outcomes and sustainable delivery practices. His early work at LIFX and Everyday Hero shows a pattern of shipping resilient, user-focused systems from cloud backends to mobile clients. An active open-source contributor, he’s made notable backend contributions to projects like the Crystal language and a Rails CMS, improving socket APIs and asset caching with solid test coverage. He pairs practical product empathy for care workers with deep systems-level experience in networking and backend engineering.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at Griffith University
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Github Skills (22)
cms10
crystal-lang10
testing10
rails10
networking10
ruby10
sinatra10
socket10
ruby-on-rails10
programming-language9
caching9
rails-engines9
regex9
compiler8
compiler-compiler8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-lang/crystal
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Tate primarily focused on enhancing the Crystal programming language's socket functionalities. They implemented and refined several socket-related features, including the `SO_BROADCAST` socket option, `UDPSocket#sendto`, and `UDPSocket#send`, alongside creating supporting tests. Significant refactoring was done to enhance socket address handling by splitting `Socket::Addr` into `Socket::IPAddr` and `Socket::UNIXAddr`. These changes focused on improving both the API and internal structure of the socket library.
esoteric-languagecrystallanguage-designcompilerprogramming-language
comfy/comfortable-mexican-sofa
May 2014 - May 2014
ComfortableMexicanSofa is a powerful Ruby on Rails 5.2+ CMS (Content Management System) Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tate focused on enhancing the asset handling capabilities of the CMS engine. They implemented features to include cache busters in asset URLs for CSS and JavaScript files, improving caching and ensuring updated assets are served. The changes involved modifications to routing, tag generation, and controller logic within the Ruby on Rails framework. Additionally, the user improved the test suite by adding tests for the newly implemented asset functionalities.
cmsruby-on-railsmanagement-systemruby-on-rails-5rails
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