John Pettitt
Area Tech Lead In Ecosystem & Growth Team, SWE Level 7 at LogicMark
Nevada City, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Pettitt is a seasoned technology leader and Area Tech Lead on Google’s Ecosystem & Growth team with a long entrepreneurial pedigree, including co-founding CyberSource, Beyond.com and Relay Media (acquired by Google). He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to prominent open-source projects like AMP and Home Assistant—with strategic product and platform leadership at scale. Known for building developer-facing components and IoT sensor integrations, he moves fluidly between front-end UX improvements and embedded systems work. Based in Nevada City, California, he also serves as an independent board member at LogicMark, bringing operator experience to governance. His career arc spans startup founding, senior engineering leadership at BitTorrent, and founding roles across the early commercial internet, reflecting deep institutional memory of web and payment infrastructure. An internet user since 1983, he pairs vintage technical curiosity with modern cloud-era execution.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
659reputation
169kreached
8answers
9questions
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
python10
testing10
css10
web-components10
jscript10
iot10
front-end-development10
sys10
html10
amp-html10
embedded10
sensor10
home-automation10
asyncio9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 116 commits, 261 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the `amphtml` repository by implementing and enhancing various AMP components. The user added caption support to the `amp-instagram` component, including updating the embed version and adding related test cases. They also introduced the `intrinsic` layout and implemented a `single-result` and `max-length` attribute for `amp-list`, contributing to improvements in content display. Furthermore, they were involved in addressing issues related to Font Awesome URLs and code refactoring.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
home-assistant/core
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 1 commit, 3 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `ambient_station` component, specifically adding and fixing support for leak detectors and their battery statuses. Their work involved modifying the binary sensor definitions to include new sensor types (leak detectors, their battery levels) and correcting the `on_state` values for the battery sensors. Additionally, the user increased the default timeout value for the `sense` component. The commits demonstrate a focus on sensor integrations within a home automation environment.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
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