John Oleksowicz
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Meraki
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Oleksowicz is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building web and backend systems across startups and established tech teams, currently contributing to Cisco Meraki after three years at Automattic. He brings a pragmatic, results-focused approach honed at organizations like Granicus and The Nerdery, with hands-on experience creating database-driven applications and operational tooling. Comfortable as an individual contributor, mentor, and cross-functional collaborator, John combines strong implementation skills with an understanding of product and support needs from earlier IT roles in education. His background in psychology and coursework in computer science gives him an uncommon blend of user-focused thinking and technical rigor. Based in Minneapolis, he favors clear, measurable outcomes over buzzwords and has a track record of turning ambiguous requirements into dependable software.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA Psychology, BA Psychology at University of MinnesotaUndergraduate Coursework Computer Science | German, Undergraduate Coursework Computer Science | German at Macalester College
German
Github Skills (77)
wordpress10
stream10
wordpress-api10
wp-cli10
newsletter10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
logging10
zebra9
makers9
twitter-client9
cnc9
twitter-api9
3d-printer9
cnc-controller9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johnolek/chess_hair
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:251 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
JolekPress/Quick-get_field
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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