John Hicks
Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager at Google
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hicks is a Senior Staff Software Engineering Manager with 16 years of experience leading monetization and ad-format engineering at Google, currently exploring ideas across multiple markets from Santa Monica. He has progressed from engineering roles to senior leadership on YouTube ad formats, driving performance-focused systems for mobile and desktop that scale to vast user bases. A founder-turned-manager, he combines hands-on technical depth—rooted in CS degrees from Harvey Mudd and UCLA—with product intuition gained at an early startup. His background includes research experience at Intel Labs and a history of shipping frontend analytics and ad systems, giving him rare fluency across research, frontend, and large-scale backend monetization. Known for turning complex ad monetization requirements into pragmatic engineering roadmaps, he balances experimentation with production rigor. Colleagues would describe him as a strategic operator who still enjoys digging into code and metrics to validate new market ideas.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (5)
application-server7
server6
gwt5
javascript4
code-behind4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
ohmage/gwt-front-end
Jul 2010 - Oct 2011
Contributions:167 commits in 1 year 2 months
front-endjavascriptcode-behindgwt
ohmage/server
Jun 2010 - Jul 2010
The ohmage server application.
Contributions:28 commits in 1 month
application-serverserver
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