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John Beatty

EIR, Sutter Hill Ventures. Engineer. Former co-founder, VPEng, and CEO of Clover (acquired).

San Carlos, California

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Education

Work Experience

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2021

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2016 - 2020

    Clover is the operating system for small business. Our mission is to help businesses operate efficiently and grow sustainably. We build beautiful hardware and software for payments and point-of-sale, built on an open platform that enables innovation in the physical world of commerce.

  • Co-founder & President of Engineering

    2010 - 2016

    Clover is on a mission to help merchants provide awesome in-store customer experiences. We’re doing this by building an open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform combined with Android-based devices that merchants and customers interact with.

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2010 - 2010

2007 - 2009

  • Principal Technical Yahoo!

    2007 - 2009

    Voting systems. Condorcet methods, dynamic ballots, fast provisional rankings, anti-fraud. Anti-spam/abuse. Used Hadoop to route out fraud and abuse. Cut my teeth on machine learning techniques. Internet applications work. Built web programming toolkits, DB tools, etc.

2006 - 2007

  • Founding Engineer

    2006 - 2007

    Online voting back-end and front-end. Lots of web development framework and database work. Also hacked on a QuickTime for Java-based webcam recorder/uploader for Mac.

2003 - 2006

  • Staff Engineer

    2003 - 2006

    Helped build fault-tolerant in-memory data store which was used in BEA WebLogic SIP Application Server. Also worked in CTO office leading Java API standards. Was BEA's alternate representative to the Java Community Process Executive Committee.

2001 - 2003

  • Senior Staff Engineer

    2001 - 2003

    Research Software Engineer, Sun Labs. Distributed search, peer-to-peer systems. Lead Architect, Liberty Alliance. Fortunately for the world, OpenID and OAuth have superseded most of what we did there.

Cambridge Technology Partners

1998 - 2000

  • Associate Director

    1998 - 2000

    Engineer for various custom software products, including retirement plan trading systems, financial modeling, and mobile service delivery platforms.

  • Intern Software Engineer

    1996 - 1997

    Intern software engineer for PC-class computer telephony clients and servers. Lots of C++ and DCOM.