John Whelchel
Engineering at Privy
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Whelchel is a software engineer and entrepreneur based in Philadelphia with 12 years of experience delivering scalable web applications and leading technical teams. He is currently an engineering leader at Privy, after earlier founder roles at PowerPicker and a tenure at Asana where he led multiple teams as Area Technical Lead for core product and later steered the Insights engineering group focused on reporting and data visualization. He co-founded SW Analytics, building a PostgreSQL-based database of over 30,000 soccer games and hundreds of millions of statistics, and developing backend and frontend analytics tools in Python. His career also includes roles at Applied Predictive Technologies where he drove high-impact full-stack features and earned a Technical Execution award for TypeScript adoption. A track record of turning ambiguous requirements into practical software, he spans back-end, data, and frontend work and has shipped analytics, reporting, and consumer-facing features across startups and larger product teams. Based in Philadelphia, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on engineering leadership to drive reliable, data-informed products.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (112)
datepicker10
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rust10
vue2-datepicker10
captcha10
credit-card9
compiler9
structures9
vue9
vue-datepicker8
browser8
javascript8
rust-lang8
vue28
bot-detection8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johnwhelchel/intellijconfig
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
johnwhelchel/gesture
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year
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