John Lago
Head Of Product at Jetify
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Lago is a product leader with 11 years of experience building developer-focused platforms and shipping developer productivity improvements at scale. Currently Head of Product at Jetify, he blends product strategy with hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source Devbox documentation, examples, and CLI/plugin code to make reproducible developer environments more approachable. Previously he led developer productivity and product teams at Airbnb and held product and program roles at Microsoft, Xamarin, and eBay, giving him deep experience across mobile, tooling, and marketplace products. Based in San Francisco and armed with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, he has a track record of turning complex engineering needs into pragmatic, well-documented solutions that accelerate team onboarding and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Economics, B.A. Economics at University of Chicago
Spanish
Github Skills (13)
documentation10
cli10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
go8
configurations8
configuration-management8
configuration-file8
devops7
build-tools7
buildpack6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jetify-com/devbox
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Instant, easy, and predictable development environments
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 236 reviews, 58 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the documentation and examples for the Devbox project, focusing on improving user onboarding and showcasing various use cases. Their work included updating the documentation with examples for several programming languages, databases, and servers, which improved project usability and demonstrated key features. They also made code changes to the core CLI, added plugin functionality, and improved the documentation.
dev-environmentbuildpackvirtualizationdevcontainerdevcontainers
jetify-com/devbox-examples
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Example dev environments built with Devbox
Contributions:11 reviews, 130 commits, 78 PRs in 5 months
devdevopsdockerdevboxenvironments
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