Summary
John Lugtu is a Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud operations with a decade of hands-on experience building full-stack applications. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he brings deep practical expertise in Ruby on Rails, C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, React/Redux and PostgreSQL while leading cloud-focused engineering at Amber Kinetics. He grew from developer to manager within the same company, demonstrating strong delivery and team leadership across backend, frontend and cloud infrastructure. A CS graduate and App Academy alumnus, he pairs academic foundations with immersive bootcamp training and early startup experience. Outside of work he channels the same persistence into rock climbing and trail running, reflecting a results-oriented, outdoors-minded approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Concentration in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Concentration in Software Engineering, Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
Associate's degree, Mathematics, Associate's degree, Mathematics at Laney College
Full Stack Development, Full Stack Development at App Academy
English, Tagalog, Spanish