Mr Bates
Jackson Bates. Engineering Manager.
Jackson Bates is an Engineering Manager in Melbourne, at Atomi, an Australian EdTech platform for high school students and teachers. He came to software through teaching, and this site is a portable classroom you can look around: the chalkboard, projector, pinboard, bin and other objects hold his lessons, projects and the things that went wrong. Every object is also available as a plain page, from the simple version.
Staff profile
I came to software engineering through teaching. For over a decade I was a Senior Teacher, Head of English and Coordinator of Learning Technologies in schools in the UK and Australia, and that's still the lens I lead through.
Since then I've been a consultant at a machine learning company, the first in-house engineer and then CTO at a social-impact startup, and now I'm an Engineering Manager at Atomi, an Australian EdTech platform for high school students and teachers. I was a long-time contributor to freeCodeCamp too: writing, moderating and helping people learn to code.
I lead teams that ship things that matter, with clarity, care, and a healthy intolerance for unnecessary complexity.