John Downs
Senior Staff Engineer at AtScale
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Downs is a Senior Staff Engineer based in New York with 13 years building scalable backend systems and leading engineering teams across analytics, subscriptions, and payments. Currently at AtScale after a four-year technical lead role at ActionIQ, he combines functional-programming enthusiasm with pragmatic engineering to drive reliable microservices and continuous delivery. He’s delivered production-ready subscription and payments platforms at Ordergroove and spearheaded microservices practices at Yodle, evidencing deep operational experience. A hands-on hacker and team lead, he mentors engineers while still contributing to architecture and code. Holding a master’s in computer science from the University of Southern Maine, he brings both academic rigor and startup-to-scale production know-how.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern Maine
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Github Skills (172)
python10
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django9
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Github contributions (5)
munk/ohds
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:1 release, 218 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
munk/TheDancingGrad.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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