Summary
John 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.
11 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