John Agan
Self Employed
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Agan is an advisor, consultant, and investor who specializes in developer platforms and AI, with a 30-year career building APIs, marketplaces, and integrations across companies like GitHub, Slack, Twitch, Atlassian, Webflow, Replit, and Salesforce. He combines hands-on engineering (0→1 product and platform launches) with executive leadership—moving Replit through a B2B transition as VP and previously leading 40–50-person developer-focused orgs. His core strengths are developer experience, API/SDK design, platform partnerships, extensibility patterns, and AI agent strategy, and he has repeatedly shipped marketplaces and partner ecosystems that unlock revenue and adoption. Since 2025 he runs Aganomix, an independent practice that pairs prototype-driven engineering with AI strategy for startups and enterprises, and he advises firms including Postman and JP Morgan Chase. Not obvious from titles: he’s often been the first technical hire or single-threaded leader who seeded functions (partner engineering, developer relations, solutions engineering) that later scaled across organizations. Based in Chicago, he blends operator experience, founder instincts, and product-level craftsmanship to help teams ship developer-loved products.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (142)
cms10
slack-bot10
azure-functions10
chat10
hubspot10
hubot10
javascript10
build-configuration10
api10
sdk10
webflow10
aws-lambda10
membership10
serverless-framework10
slack10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin
Apr 2016 - Sep 2021
A webpack plugin to remove your build folder(s) before building
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 8 commits in 5 years 5 months
webpack-pluginjavascriptcleanpluginwebpack
johnagan/slack-devkit
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
A Slack developer kit to make building distributed Slack Apps easy.
Contributions:2 releases, 12 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 7 months
distributedserverlessexpressdeveloper-kitsdk
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