John Etherton
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Etherton is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience leading teams to deliver reliable, full-stack web and mobile systems, currently shaping Amazon’s Renewed program and broader retail site. He combines hands-on engineering—from backend APIs and database work to JavaScript frontends and mobile apps—with a track record of driving refactors, cross-platform strategies, and agile practices to improve stability and release cadence. His work spans startups to large enterprises and humanitarian tech, including technical leadership on Kobo and contributions to the Ushahidi mapping platform that improved map rendering and custom form handling. A Georgia Tech computer science graduate, John is known for mentoring teams, instituting testable architectures, and bringing pragmatic, documentation-friendly engineering discipline to complex, mission-driven projects.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (13)
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web-development10
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webapp10
apidoc9
api9
openlayers8
database-design7
mysql7
html6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web
May 2010 - Sep 2014
Ushahidi v2. A platform that allows information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, allowing anyone to submit information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:76 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the Ushahidi web platform by addressing bug fixes and implementing new features. They modified both backend code, such as database configuration and API objects, and frontend components by updating JavaScript files and views. Their work included fixing map rendering issues, improving custom form field handling, and integrating event hooks for various parts of the system.
pythonphonemobile-phoneweb-formtext-messaging
jetherton/simplegroups
Dec 2010 - Mar 2013
Contributions:160 commits in 2 years 3 months
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