Summary
John Leone is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with a decade of experience building real-time media and embedded systems across Cisco and Microsoft. He brings deep C/C++ expertise and hands-on experience with multimedia codecs, VoIP stacks, and real-time threading, complemented by systems work in Python, C#, Docker, Jenkins, and VMware. His background in computer engineering and firmware-level hardware interfaces (ARM, PIC, SPI/I2C/UART) gives him uncommon breadth from silicon to cloud-deployed containers. Notable achievements include massively speeding media server builds and containerizing legacy services to simplify deployment and testing. Colleagues rely on him for complex protocol debugging, audio quality tooling, and pragmatic automation that bridges development and operations.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
Intermediate College, Computer Engineering, Intermediate College, Computer Engineering at Santa Rosa Junior College