John Foushee
SDE at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Foushee is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building large-scale systems across major consumer platforms, currently an SDE at AWS after staff engineering roles at Reddit and Meta. He specializes in backend and full-stack technologies including Go, Hack/PHP, React, JavaScript and MySQL, with a track record of shipping API and platform-level features at scale. His career includes early work on Tumblr’s API and leadership on platform teams, showing comfort across both startup-like environments and hyperscale engineering organizations. Colleagues know him for bridging legacy PHP systems to modern Golang and React stacks while maintaining production reliability. Based in Seattle and trained at UNC Chapel Hill, he blends pragmatic engineering with a history of cross-team impact at industry-leading companies. An understated strength is his ability to move between code, system design and operational ownership, making him effective on both feature delivery and long-term platform robustness.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, German
Stackoverflow
901reputation
99kreached
12answers
9questions
Github Skills (76)
mapview10
google-maps10
maps10
react-native10
tabletop9
ios9
android9
audio-player8
widgets8
instantsearch7
algolia7
audio7
html-template7
multiplayer7
react7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fousheezy/form
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:24 commits, 1 push in 2 months
foush/tumblr.go
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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