John Nagro
Co-Founder at Noreaster Group
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJohn Nagro is a seasoned software leader and founder with 18 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and scalable back-end systems. As Co-Founder of Noreaster Group and former Principal Software Engineer at edX, he blends startup grit with product and data strategy to help organizations align technology and go-to-market execution. He has led engineering teams as CTO at Dockwa/Marinas.com and directed engineering at HubSpot, consistently moving ideas from prototype to production. An active contributor to Open edX, his backend work on authentication, GDPR, and course-discovery services reflects deep Django and systems-level expertise in a widely used open-source LMS. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs hands-on coding with strategic leadership and a knack for translating privacy and data requirements into robust platform features.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Northeastern University
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Github Skills (26)
data-service10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
django10
user-authentication10
authentication10
webservice10
api10
backend10
amazon-elasticsearch9
testing9
postgresql9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openedx/openedx-platform
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 78 commits, 161 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to back-end aspects of the Open edX platform. Their work involved modifying user authentication and account-related functionalities, including username generation, retirement processes, and GDPR-related adjustments. The commits demonstrate involvement in modifying Django-based code, integrating third-party authentication, and adjusting database interactions. Additionally, this user demonstrated an understanding of testing the backend logic.
lmsopenedxbackend-service
openedx/course-discovery
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Service providing access to consolidated course and program metadata
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 13 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the backend services of the `course-discovery` repository. Their work included implementing features such as generating test data and adding course type information to the search API responses. They also made changes to the search document serializer, management commands, and tests related to course metadata, demonstrating a focus on enhancing the course discovery functionality. The user's commits were associated with both new features and bug fixes, specifically through reverting a change.
data-managementconsolidateditilbackend-servicemetadata
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