John Mangel is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building customer-focused full‑stack web applications, currently working on medical record review software in Santa Barbara. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails and React expertise with a product-minded approach, having led teams at AppFolio to automate call-center workflows and build high-throughput pricing tools that processed tens of thousands of updates. As a former tech lead, he emphasizes mentorship and trust-building, routinely training interns and new engineers while driving iterative, user-centered solutions. His freelance work delivered education and nonprofit tools used by hundreds of educators, showing an attention to usability and real-world impact beyond core product teams. Outside engineering he composes and performs music and experiments with music education technology, a creative thread that informs his tinkering and UX sensibilities.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Elisabeth-Langgässer-Gymansium, Alzey, Germany
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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