Summary
John Loy is a senior software engineer with over two decades of web experience and a 12-year track record in professional engineering roles, currently building web platforms at DreamWorks Animation. He brings full-stack fluency—from Backbone and single-page app architecture to Clojure, Rails, and modern front-end patterns—having led SPA rewrites and UI architecture for enterprise and education clients. At WillowTree and Scitent he combined hands-on coding with team leadership, managing distributed consultants and defining UX through wireframes, user testing, and reusable component patterns. He’s experienced in analytics-driven product improvements and accessibility-conscious design from extensive work with universities and high-traffic public sites. Based in Charlottesville, VA, John pairs deep institutional knowledge of web publishing with a practical knack for translating complex requirements into robust, maintainable web applications.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
East Carolina University