John Leacox
Principal Software Engineer at Backblaze
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Leacox is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reusable infrastructure libraries and REST API platforms that accelerate team delivery and improve service quality. He has led the design and implementation of public API and authorization services, bootstrapped an internal public REST API platform, and open-sourced Java service frameworks used across microservices teams. Comfortable across Java, Kotlin, Ruby, and cloud-native patterns, he focuses on developer ergonomics and scalable, consistent integrations. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, he contributes to open source projects like motif, kotlin-guice, and beadledom, reflecting a long-standing interest in language ergonomics and dependency-injection DSLs that isn’t obvious from job titles alone.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS and BA Computer Science and Philosophy, BS and BA Computer Science and Philosophy at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (166)
messaging10
swagger10
guice10
middleware10
api10
jackson10
rest10
dependency-injection10
unity3d10
java-client10
java10
resteasy10
kotlin10
injection10
health10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johnlcox/roam-to-git
May 2020 - Aug 2023
Automatic RoamResearch backup to Git
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
incrementalsubversionroamresearchdeduplicationstaging
johnlcox/toml4j
Feb 2013 - Jun 2019
A Java parser for TOML
Contributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 6 years 4 months
javatomljava-parserparser
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