John Lynch
CTO at Tioga Ventures
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Lynch is a veteran CTO and startup builder with 16+ years delivering web-scale systems for both bootstrapped ventures and Fortune 500 clients from a base in Carlsbad, California. He thrives at Zero-to-One product work, combining hands-on engineering (Ruby/Rails, React, AWS, Kubernetes) with enterprise-scale leadership—he’s led teams from solo shops to organizations of 100+ engineers. A long-time entrepreneur and angel investor through Tioga Ventures, he pairs product intuition with capital and mentoring to accelerate founders. His open-source contributions include deep Ruby work on distributed-database tooling (riAk-ripple), reflecting a comfort with low-level data modeling as well as modern cloud stacks. Educated in electrical engineering at UC San Diego and Sheffield, he brings systems thinking informed by early career experience building real-time trading and CRM platforms. Outside work he’s an active SoCal tech champion with eclectic side projects in gaming and film tech that reveal a taste for creative, cross-disciplinary product bets.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (4)
testing10
riak10
ruby10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
riak-ripple/ripple
Feb 2010 - Mar 2010
A rich Ruby modeling layer for Riak, Basho's distributed database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the `Riak::Link` class within the Ruby-based `ripple` library. Their contributions include adding methods to retrieve bucket and key information from link URLs, implementing `hash` and `eql?` methods for object comparison, and modifying the class to correctly handle nil values. Furthermore, the user implemented tests to ensure correct link parsing and to handle duplicate links.
rubydistributed-databasedatabaseriakmodeling
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