John Pinkster
VP Of Engineering at Maestro
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Pinkster is a seasoned engineering leader with 10+ years of experience who has grown through hands-on roles at Maestro from Software Engineer to VP of Engineering, shaping Mighty—an adaptive learning product used by enterprise L&D teams. He blends product-focused technical leadership with a customer-first mindset, personally engaging with users to solve problems, prioritize features, and improve adoption. John thrives on tackling hard problems and building pragmatic systems that make people’s work easier, delivering measurable learning outcomes for clients. Based in Kalamazoo, he pairs a Western Michigan University computer science background with deep institutional knowledge of Maestro’s platform and roadmap. Outside the office he channels rhythm and leadership as a former college drumline marcher who now coaches a high school drumline, a hint at his focus on precision and team coordination. Colleagues know him as accessible, fast to respond, and willing to roll up his sleeves—from product design conversations to helping a customer get unstuck.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at Western Michigan University
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Github Skills (169)
postgresql10
jsonb10
databases10
typescript-definitions10
microservices10
javascript10
validation10
decorators10
sql10
nest10
d110
scalable10
server-side10
json10
sqlite10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TeamMaestro/sequelize-common
Nov 2018 - Sep 2022
Our common functions, base tables, interfaces, etc for Sequelize projects
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 12 PRs in 3 years 10 months
sequelizeinterfacesnodejsnpm
TeamMaestro/node-couchdb-client
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
This typescript module is designed to do handle the communication between NodeJS and CouchDB
Contributions:9 releases, 24 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
javascriptto-docommunicationtypescript-modulenodejs
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