John King
Software Engineer at Two Sigma
Greater Houston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn King is a software engineer with 12 years of industry experience, currently building systems at Two Sigma after prior roles at SnapStream and internships at Palantir and HomeAway. He specializes in distributed systems, backend engineering, and data-processing pipelines, having implemented vector-clock-based synchronization and efficient map-reduce analyses earlier in his career. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Java and C# to JavaScript and database tooling—he has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions in large, complex codebases. Beyond engineering, he has hands-on experience mentoring and tutoring children, reflecting strong communication and teaching instincts that inform his collaborative work style. Based in Greater Houston and educated at Rice University in Computer Science, he combines academic grounding with real-world production experience. Colleagues describe him as steady, detail-oriented, and motivated to make measurable impact on high-performing teams.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Rice University
English
Github Skills (9)
api3
hdfs3
google-maps-api3
google-maps2
task-list2
camera2
android2
markdown1
claude1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jfking/jfking.github.io
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Source code for jfking.github.io and allisontraylor.com
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
jfking/django-site
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
pythondjangoprojectdjangodjango-sitefollowing
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