Summary
John Cipriano is a versatile Software & DevOps freelancer based in Berkeley with 12 years of experience building end-to-end automation, data integration workflows, and observable, reliable systems. Comfortable across the stack, he moves between CI/CD and infrastructure work, API integrations, and application development—bringing hands-on ops experience from managing production Linux and Windows environments to shipping features in Rails and React. His background includes roles at Gradescope where he combined engineering, project management, and pair programming to reduce technical debt and streamline delivery, and earlier systems administration work automating maintenance and creating internal tooling. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs, favoring auditable, maintainable solutions that bridge developer productivity and operational resilience.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at App Academy
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Fairfield University
REU Research Internship Software & Language Engineering, REU Research Internship Software & Language Engineering at The University of Alabama