John Crim
Founder at Stealth Software Startup
North Bend, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Crim is a seasoned founder and hands-on engineering leader with 25+ years building scalable platforms and startups, currently leading a stealth software company near Seattle. He has co-founded four companies, served as VP/Sr. Director of engineering across adtech and mobile platforms, and repeatedly drives architecture, developer productivity, and high-quality production code. Comfortable across .NET, Java, and C++, he specializes in platform and API design, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and operational transparency. John’s “special sauce” is staying in the trenches—contributing code while coaching engineers—to spot quality or direction issues early and rapidly improve team leverage. He pairs deep technical breadth with deal-level technical due diligence experience for private equity and VCs, showing both startup hustle and investment-grade judgment. Outside core product work he’s shipped tooling and search/ads innovations that scaled into large publisher and operator deployments.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, DavisEl Dorado High School
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
nunit10
visual-studio10
custom-element10
code-contracts10
json10
static-site-generator10
nodejs10
dart-sass10
unit-testing10
angular-library10
angular-package-format10
web-components10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
johncrim/ng-jest-starter
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
Starter project for running + debugging Jest tests in an Angular project. VS Code and Chrome Dev Tools can be used to debug the Jest tests.
Contributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 years 3 months
jest-testsdevjesttestingvscode
logjam2/logjam
Oct 2012 - Feb 2018
Contributions:230 commits, 7 PRs, 139 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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