John Mccowan
Senior Engineer at Culture Amp
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mccowan is a Senior Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of hands-on experience building front-, middle- and back-end systems, currently shaping product at Culture Amp. He specializes in JavaScript for web and mobile, with a proven track record delivering interactive UIs, embedded systems, and reliable backend services under tight deadlines. His background includes designing in-flight entertainment platforms at Panasonic and building ad video players and resilient mobile network solutions at AppNexus, demonstrating strength in performance-constrained environments. Comfortable across the full stack, he has led API design and production releases while collaborating closely with QA and customers to drive pragmatic outcomes. Recently he has been migrating his projects to Rust, signaling a focus on performance and systems-level reliability beyond his JavaScript expertise. Colleagues describe him as a communicative team player who turns complex requirements into maintainable, well-engineered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 3.3, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 3.3 at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
rule8
unity3d8
react8
typescript7
storybook5
vtt2
foundry2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jwmccowan/RPG
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Unity project to make a JRPG inspired take on the Pathfinder rule set
Contributions:300 commits, 70 PRs, 96 pushes in 6 months
ruleunity-projectjrpgpathfinderunity
jwmccowan/trailsearcher
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
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