John-michael Cummings
CEO at Howl Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn-michael Cummings is a CEO and seasoned technical leader in Portland, Oregon with eight years of experience building high-performance, algorithm- and data-intensive systems. He has progressed from engineering and mission-planning leadership roles in aerospace to senior management at Pachyderm and CTO-level responsibilities at Rapid Recall, now leading Howl Inc. His background blends hands-on software engineering, cloud-native ML infrastructure, and product leadership—managing multi-million-dollar budgets and teams delivering production-grade systems. He pairs a Juris Doctor with technical chops, which informs a pragmatic, compliance-aware approach to complex systems and data workflows. Notably, he has deep experience operationalizing data lineage, versioning, and pipeline orchestration on Kubernetes, translating research-grade ideas into reliable, scalable products.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor Law, Juris Doctor Law at Georgetown LawBachelor's degree History, Bachelor's degree History at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (2)
leap-year4
optimization3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jmcummings77/leapyear
May 2019 - May 2020
Over engineered leap year optimizations
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
optimizationsoptimizationleap-year
jmcummings77/linear-A
May 2021 - May 2021
C# TDD Linear Algebra library for fun
Contributions:8 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
linear-algebra-librarylinear-algebramathscomputer-algebra-systemlinear
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