Summary
John Randall is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience and deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, currently driving product and technical work at OpsLevel. He helped scale BackerKit from a small Rails/Javascript project into the leading pledge-management ecosystem, integrating payments, fulfillment, and analytics for millions of backers and hundreds of creators. A mission-focused polymath with a J.D. and a technical background, he blends product-driven, data-informed engineering with process leadership and hands-on DevOps. He has a track record of improving deliverability and observability—building tailored email-deliverability analytics—and mentoring teams through rapid growth while preserving a collaborative culture. Comfortable shaping strategy and shipping iteratively, he’s now seeking leadership opportunities and more complex technical challenges to broaden his technical scope. Based in New Jersey, he brings uncommon cross-disciplinary experience spanning law, policy, media production, and scalable web platforms.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
12-week Web Development Immersive program, Web Development, 12-week Web Development Immersive program, Web Development at General Assembly
B.S., magna cum laude, Digital Communications and Media, B.S., magna cum laude, Digital Communications and Media at New York University
J.D., cum laude, Certificate in Information Law and Intellectual Property, J.D., cum laude, Certificate in Information Law and Intellectual Property at Brooklyn Law School