John Dean
Principle at Shutterstock
Longmont, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Dean is a principal software engineer with 12 years of professional experience building full‑stack, high-performance web applications and cloud-native services from embedded set-top boxes to large-scale creative tools. Currently at Shutterstock (working within GIPHY), he architects, deploys, and operates user-facing image and video editing systems while routinely stepping into backend, DevOps, and performance work as needed. Previously he led frontend and GraphQL efforts for Verta.AI—contributing substantial webapp refactors and integrations to the open-source Verta modelDB project—and owned cloud architecture and CI/CD automation for real‑time VR experiences at Sandbox VR. He combines deep systems and testing roots (from Nokia, Freescale, Metrowerks) with pragmatic product focus, especially around profiling, build automation, and deployment pipelines. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he’s fluent across hardware, software and “wetware” domains and has a knack for quickly mastering unfamiliar computing stacks. His GitHub persona “CaptEmulation” reflects a persistent, hands‑on programmer mindset that surfaces in meaningful open‑source contributions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinClear Lake Highschool
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
web-application10
amazon-web-services10
front-end-development10
amazon-s310
webapp10
nodejs10
web-development10
react10
apollo9
jestjs9
create-react-app9
versioning8
model-management8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VertaAI/modeldb
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Open Source ML Model Versioning, Metadata, and Experiment Management
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 24 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on web application updates and refactoring within the `vertaai/modeldb` repository. Their work involved significant changes to the webapp, including moving components and stores, adding and updating features like a high-level search page, and integrating new libraries such as Apollo. They also made substantial changes to the project's build and deployment processes. These changes suggest a strong focus on both the front-end and back-end of the web application, along with some DevOps involvement.
data-sciencedeep-learningmachine-learningmodel-versioningmlops
CaptEmulation/coc-slack-bot
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 9 months
clashbotslack-botclansslack
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