John Ratcliff is a hands-on Director of Engineering based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience building and leading high-performing web engineering teams. He has a proven track record modernizing front-end architectures (React, Ember) and shrinking JavaScript payloads and load times through pragmatic refactors, code-splitting, and performance optimizations. At Corista he progressed from senior engineer to team lead and now directs engineering, balancing roadmap ownership, cross-team integrations, and operational support for customer environments. Previously he led a multi-year platform transformation as Director of Technology—raising test coverage, decoupling a monolith into microservices, and enabling significant product and revenue growth. Comfortable both mentoring teams and shipping code, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a background in theology that informs thoughtful leadership and long-term perspective.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Biblical Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Biblical Studies at Biola University
Master of Theology, New Testament, Master of Theology, New Testament at Talbot School of Theology
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John Ratcliff - Director Of Engineering at Corista