John Perkins
Director Of Software Engineering at RedHills Software
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Perkins is a veteran software engineering leader with over 30 years in software and 14 years in senior management, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Sphero in Tallahassee. He blends hands-on development with strategic direction, having led platform integrations, e-commerce migrations, and COPPA-compliant LMS projects while shepherding teams through an acquisition. A longtime Ruby/Rails expert and open-source contributor, he has extended NetSuite SuiteTalk wrappers and built robust integrations between Shopify, HubSpot, and NetSuite. His background spans enterprise middleware at Oracle to founding early startups, and he often applies unconventional domain experience—like field surveying—to pragmatic system design and reliability.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Engineering Mathematics Architecture, BA Engineering Mathematics Architecture at Washington and Lee UniversityMAURP Urban & Regional Planning, MAURP Urban & Regional Planning at University of Florida
English
Github Skills (6)
ruby-rails10
rails10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
erp9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NetSweet/netsuite
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
NetSuite SuiteTalk API Wrapper
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 15 PRs, 3 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on enhancing the NetSuite SuiteTalk API wrapper. Their contributions involved adding new fields, record types, and methods to interact with the NetSuite API, specifically related to record and sublist functionality. This includes adding upsert methods, search joins, and implementing support for custom fields. They also worked on resolving issues and refactoring existing code to improve the wrapper's features and functionality for interacting with the NetSuite API.
apierpnetsuite-apirailsapi-wrapper
razum2um/sabre
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:58 commits in 3 months
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