Summary
John Niedzwiecki is a Senior Engineering Manager with over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience building full-stack and UI-focused tooling for large-scale media platforms, currently leading teams at The Walt Disney Company supporting Disney+, Hulu, Star, Star+, and ESPN+. He blends deep technical craftsmanship—modern Angular front ends, Java microservices, event-driven backends, and both SQL/NoSQL stores—with a strong product and UX sensibility to optimize system performance and developer throughput. John has repeatedly scaled distributed teams across time zones, hiring and mentoring engineers while translating complex stakeholder requirements into roadmaps and reliable releases. A former adjunct computer science professor and long-time UI advocate, he brings an educator’s patience to career development and cross-team collaboration. Outside work he’s the “kilted coder” type who enjoys tabletop RPGs, hinting at a creative, systems-oriented mindset that informs both design and team culture.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
M.S. Computer Science and Engineering, M.S. Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University