John Mangan is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience building scalable, modular backends and full-stack products across startups and research institutions. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science focused on software engineering, architecture, and distributed systems, and has repeatedly translated those principles into robust, extensible platforms—from VR CAVE distributed rendering research at UCSD to consumer-facing live interactive entertainment like Ripkord.tv. He excels at refactoring complex systems into modular components that accelerate feature delivery and improve scalability, and has led backend architecture and performance efforts at companies such as Tellie, Astral, and Dubsado. John combines hands-on implementation with systems-level thinking, equally comfortable designing kernel-level plugins for visualization frameworks and shipping B2C/B2B PaaS/SaaS products. Outside of product work he has run a boutique consultancy (ByteSmith) and contributed to academic projects, a background that gives him both entrepreneurial pragmatism and a taste for technically ambitious problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
IGETC Certification Mathematics Computer Science, IGETC Certification Mathematics Computer Science at Ohlone College
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