John C
Team Lead Lead Developer Product Owner Subject Matter Expert
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
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Top SchoolJohn C is a results-driven software leader with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Team Lead, Lead Developer, Product Owner, and SME at BNSF Railway, owning critical applications that manage over 8,000 locomotives and support 32,000+ miles of track. He blends hands-on Java and React development with product stewardship and DevOps practices—building event-driven backends, Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, and high-coverage test suites—while mentoring teams and shaping stakeholder priorities. His work on the Tractive Effort project delivered 12–15% network capacity gains and roughly $150M in annual savings, reflecting a focus on measurable operational impact. Comfortable across the full SDLC, he has rebuilt availability, created a team knowledge base, and led cross-functional initiatives that reduce outages and lower support costs. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, he pairs deep rail-industry domain expertise with a history of improving CI/CD and monitoring pipelines for long-lived enterprise systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of North TexasHigh School, Computer Software Engineering, High School, Computer Software Engineering at New Tech High @ Coppell
English
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JohnTrentonCary/rEFInd-Metro
Apr 2017 - Sep 2018
A rEFInd theme based of Burg Metro
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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JohnTrentonCary/dojo_rules
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 day
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