John Hunchar
Senior Software Engineer at Instagram
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hunchar is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact Android experiences for major consumer brands, currently developing at Instagram in Philadelphia. He brings deep mobile engineering expertise from roles at Bleacher Report, MLB/BAMTECH, and as lead Android developer on NHL apps, combining product-driven feature delivery with platform-level performance work. His background as a founding CTO and mechanical engineer gives him an unusual blend of startup pragmatism, systems thinking, and design-for-manufacturability rigor. John has repeatedly led Android teams through complex integrations for large-scale media and travel clients, evidencing strong cross-functional collaboration with product and design. He is comfortable shifting between hands-on implementation and technical leadership, with a history of shipping polished apps in both agency and in-house environments.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Penn State UniversityM.S.E., Integrated Product Design, M.S.E., Integrated Product Design at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (9)
android-sdk9
sdk8
messaging7
android7
java7
chat7
kotlin7
swift1
ios1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
Slyce-Inc/Slyce-Android-SDK
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Slyce Android SDK
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
androidsdkandroid-sdk
Slyce-Inc/SlyceMessaging
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
A messaging library for Android
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
messaging-librarychatandroidkotlinmessaging
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