John L
Senior Software Engineer at Blue Rose Research
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn L is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 18 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across startups and large tech companies. He has deep expertise in distributed systems and reliability from roles at Jane Street and Google, where he helped launch the Perspective API and built backend infrastructure used by publishers and researchers. More recently he’s applied his skills to product-focused teams at Gro Intelligence, an Area 120 venture, and now Blue Rose Research, bridging research, tooling, and real-world impact. An active contributor to open source documentation for the Rust creative-coding framework nannou, he brings a bias for clarity and developer experience as well as robust engineering. Colleagues value him for pragmatic problem solving that balances performance, fairness, and long-term maintainability.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science major, Math minor, BS, Computer Science major, Math minor at University of Florida
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
rust10
api-documentation10
coding9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nannou-org/nannou
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focus on improving the documentation within the nannou creative coding framework. They addressed various documentation issues, including clarifying function behaviors, correcting broken links, and adding details to enhance clarity. These changes involved updating comments, adding links to external documentation, and ensuring the accuracy and readability of the framework's API reference.
rustnode-graphgenerative-art
jli/circularly
Dec 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:88 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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