John Ptacek
Business Technologies Contractor at Kenya Works
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ptacek is a business technologies contractor and seasoned architect with 11+ years in software and over two decades of technical leadership spanning enterprise cloud, telecom tooling, and risk modeling. He blends hands-on engineering—creating an IP telephony IDE as CTO of Aptigen—with strategic consulting at Skyline and senior cloud architecture work at Breakthrough, helping nonprofits, energy, defense, and commercial clients turn ideas into production solutions. Trained as a nuclear engineer and applied mathematician at UW‑Madison, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to systems design and probabilistic risk-informed decision making. An active community connector, he leverages broad professional networks to launch collaborative projects and serve on boards like Kenya Works. Currently based in Appleton, WI, he balances deep technical chops with a knack for translating stakeholder needs into pragmatic, innovative technology.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering, Master’s Degree, Nuclear Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,886reputation
303kreached
70answers
12questions
sharepoint
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
sharepoint9
azure6
viewmodel6
nullable6
databinding6
elmah6
moss6
react-auth3
perf3
clipper3
authentication2
okta2
javascript2
python2
react2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jptacek/dotfiles
Apr 2019 - Dec 2021
Contributions:51 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
jptacek/jptacek.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:136 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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