John Pitney
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Bayer Crop Science
Saint Peters, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Pitney is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Saint Peters, Missouri with 10 years in full-stack web and AWS backend development and a deep prior career in semiconductor process R&D and IoT/embedded systems. He blends hands-on software delivery at Bayer Crop Science with two decades of physics-driven engineering—from a PhD in Physics at UIUC to roles at Bell Labs, MEMC, and SunEdison—bringing uncommon domain knowledge in equipment design and computational fluid dynamics to software problems. Known for translating complex physical systems into reliable cloud-native and embedded solutions, he excels at bridging lab-scale R&D with product-ready infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices that respect both manufacturing constraints and scalable software practices.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Missouri
English
Github Skills (183)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
johnp789/mkosi
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Build Legacy-Free OS Images
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
linux
johnp789/astro-blog
May 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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