John Naegle
Sr. Software Engineer at Zola.com
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Naegle is a senior full-stack software engineer with 20+ years of professional development experience and a proven track record building web platforms since 2004. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he currently shapes product and platform engineering at Zola after leading feature-rich, performance-focused work at GoodMeasures and Varolii. He moves fluidly between backend optimization (notably contributions improving bulk-import performance in the activerecord-import project) and front-end UX with Vue and Rails, and has driven measurable speedups and robust API integrations across complex systems. His background includes low-level systems and hardware tooling early in his career, giving him an uncommon fluency in both embedded and web-scale engineering. Known for practical automation—Ansible playbooks, CI improvements, and browser test automation—he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and architectural leadership.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
abstraction10
data-abstraction10
ruby10
testing9
postgresql7
mysql7
benchmarking7
benchmark7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zdennis/activerecord-import
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
A library for bulk insertion of data into your database using ActiveRecord.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the backend of the `activerecord-import` library, focusing on improving its functionality and performance. Their work involved fixing issues related to bulk imports, specifically addressing association loading and optimization for efficiency. They also made improvements to the testing infrastructure and benchmark scripts, including correcting build configurations, cleaning up warnings, and renaming methods to improve code clarity.
railsinsertionrubydatabaseactiverecord
johnnaegle/zola-laptop
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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