John Pendexter
Lead Engineer at Virchu
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Pendexter is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems from Columbus, Ohio. He has progressed through senior and lead engineering roles across healthcare, analytics, and platform startups, most recently joining Tempus AI after leading platform engineering at Virchu. John specializes in converting legacy systems into scalable microservices and has repeatedly shipped full-stack solutions and data-focused engineering work under tight timelines. He combines hands-on implementation with cross-team mentorship and has led training initiatives on Git, Spring Boot, and modern web stacks. Known for pragmatic engineering, he balances performance optimization with operational reliability and real-time data needs. Outside of projects, he brings a knack for improving team delivery practices and making complex systems more maintainable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Franklin UniversityAssociate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Columbus State Community College
English
Github Skills (22)
java10
search-engine9
restful9
queue9
job-queue9
stability9
elasticsearch9
android8
opensearch8
android-testing5
android-library5
testing5
rails4
ruby4
kotlin4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pendext/manifest-refactoring
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
refactoringmartin-fowler
pendext/asynchronicity
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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