John Mela
Senior Software Engineer at Armanino
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mela is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable full-stack systems, from mobile and SaaS platforms to blockchain parachains. Currently at Armanino after consulting at West Monroe, he has led back-end, devops, and performance work—scaling AWS services, tuning SQL, and deploying containerized workloads to handle tens of thousands of requests in bursts. He contributed to Frequency, implementing novel Substrate/Rust features and CI testnets for a Polkadot parachain, demonstrating comfort with cutting‑edge web3 protocols in addition to traditional stacks like Django and Node.js. Based in Youngstown, Ohio, he pairs pragmatic operational troubleshooting with architecture-level thinking and has a history of mentoring junior engineers. Notably, his early work spans mobile native modules and network automation, reflecting a long-term curiosity about systems-level engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Security, Computer Security at University of California, BerkeleyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Youngstown State UniversityComputer Security, Computer Security at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (33)
substrate10
blockchain10
rust10
signal9
kotlin9
polkadot9
android8
websocket8
signer8
java8
nodejs8
socket-io8
messenger8
sublime-text7
javascript7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LibertyDSNP/ss58-registry
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Registry for SS58 account types
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
accountss58
johnmela/kitties-tutorial
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:3 pushes in 10 days
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