Summary
John Montroy is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend, DevOps, and big data systems, currently focused on architecture and delivery at Radiant. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go and Python, with a strong background in Scala, Spark, Kafka, and container platforms—having driven platform and DevOps work at Walmart Global Tech and Jet.com. Comfortable across the full lifecycle, he has moved between data engineering, distributed systems, and even audio plugin development during a Recurse Center residency, reflecting an appetite for low-level and domain-specific challenges. Known for pragmatic tooling and automation, he’s equally at home writing backend services as he is wrestling with Kubernetes and CI/CD at scale. His early physics training and stint at CERN contribute to a methodical, experiment-driven approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Physics, BA Physics at Middlebury College
NA NA, NA NA at Freie Universität
German