Staff Software Engineer & Technical Lead
A highly customizable, headless content management system built with Next.js App Router, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Features a rich text editor, drag-and-drop media management, and role-based access control.
A commercially successful web application that generates high-resolution digital art from text prompts. Handles over 10,000 daily generations utilizing an asynchronous queue system and custom-trained Stable Diffusion models.
An open-source real-time dashboard for visualizing high-frequency trading data across multiple cryptocurrency exchanges using WebSockets and D3.js.
A hobby project building a lightweight quantum circuit simulator in Rust, capable of visualizing state vectors and running standard quantum algorithms.
Staff Software Engineer
Mar 2021 — Present
San Francisco, CA
Leading the architectural vision and technical strategy for the core cloud communications platform, processing over 50 million messages daily.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Jun 2018 — Feb 2021
New York, NY
Key early technical hire responsible for delivering the flagship B2B SaaS product from conceptualization to global launch.
Software Engineer II
Jan 2016 — May 2018
Austin, TX
Contributed to high-traffic consumer-facing applications and internal operational tooling.
Junior Developer
Aug 2014 — Dec 2015
Remote
Built responsive e-commerce websites and digital marketing tools for enterprise clients.
Master of Science, Computer Science (Specialization in Distributed Systems)
Sep 2012 — Jun 2014
Graduated with highest honors (GPA: 3.9/4.0). Authored a thesis on optimzing consensus algorithms in distributed networks.
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
Sep 2008 — May 2012
Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Lead developer for the university's robotics team, winning 1st place in the national autonomous navigation competition.
Amazon Web Services
Nov 2023
Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Aug 2022
HashiCorp
Feb 2021
“John is an exceptional engineering leader. He possesses the rare ability to dive deep into complex code architecture while simultaneously keeping the overall business strategy in sharp focus. His mentorship completely transformed our engineering culture.”
— Sarah Chen
VP of Engineering, TechNova Solutions
“Working with John was a privilege. He single-handedly saved our platform launch by identifying and resolving a critical database bottleneck just days before going live. He is the ultimate 10x engineer.”
— Michael Rodriguez
Co-Founder, Elevate Startup Inc.
TechNova Excellence Awards
2023
Awarded for designing the new real-time analytics pipeline that unlocked a new enterprise product tier.
Global Cloud Native Hackathon
2021
Led a team of 4 to build a serverless disaster recovery management tool in 48 hours out of 500+ competing teams.
Frontend Masters Blog
Mar 2024
Read Publication →Cloud Architecture Weekly
Oct 2022
Read Publication →End-to-end cloud architecture solutions focused on AWS and containerized microservices.
$200/hr
Deep dive into frontend and backend bottlenecks to dramatically improve response times.
$1500 (Flat)
Real-time collaborative dashboard used by 100k+ active users.
React Native application for high-frequency crypto trading.
English
Native/Bilingual
Spanish
Professional Working Proficiency
Mandarin Chinese
Elementary Proficiency
Code for America
Jan 2020 — Present
Mentoring individuals from underrepresented backgrounds transitioning into tech, leading weekly study groups on JS/React.
Open Source Collective
Mar 2018 — Dec 2019
Maintained pivotal open-source packages, managing PRs and community issues.
San Francisco, CA • Remote