Summary
John Adelus is a seasoned senior principal software engineer and founder with over four decades of technical experience and 11 years in recent roles driving cloud-native product delivery. Currently at Quicken, he architects and implements end-to-end security, AI agent management, multi-platform authentication, and internal consoles using AWS, Spring, Netflix OSS, Docker, and React—blending deep front-end skill with cloud and microservices expertise. His career spans influential companies from General Magic and WebTV to Microsoft and VMware, where he led engineering teams across virtualization, IoT, digital media, and enterprise services. As founder of JAdelus & Associates and former VP/CTO roles, he brings an entrepreneur’s pragmatism to large-scale system design and operational reliability. Based in Tucson, he combines formal training in materials science with a long-running curiosity for software, a background that helps him approach engineering problems with a materials-science–inspired systems mindset.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Materials Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Materials Science at University of Bath