Summary
John Horton is a Frontend Team Lead and full-stack TypeScript engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable web and mobile experiences from Raleigh, NC. He’s led major migrations and platform work—converting an Angular app to React and designing a customizable widget-based dashboard—while also creating reusable component libraries and CI/CD/testing tooling for teams shipping apps used by millions. Comfortable across React, Vue, TypeScript, Node, PHP frameworks and serverless stacks, he blends hands-on development with developer experience improvements like internal NPM packages and custom Cypress tooling. A former Marine Corps tactical/network specialist, he brings disciplined systems thinking and a focus on maintainability to complex refactors and cross-brand projects. Notably, he pairs product-minded leadership with deep testing and automation expertise that reduces flakiness and operational overhead.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tactical+Cisco Networking and security, Tactical+Cisco Networking and security at marine corps communication electronics school