John Ratcliff
Director Of Engineering at Corista
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn 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 UniversityMaster of Theology, New Testament, Master of Theology, New Testament at Talbot School of Theology
biblical greek
Github Skills (109)
high-resolution10
fastboot10
image-viewer10
ember-cli10
javascript-framework10
data-loading10
emberjs10
qunit10
ember10
nested-json10
zooming10
javascript10
iiif10
decorators10
ember-engines10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thec0keman/emblem.js
May 2015 - Jan 2019
Emblem.js - Ember-friendly, indented syntax alternative for Handlebars.js
Contributions:97 pushes, 40 branches, 4 tags in 3 years 8 months
emberhandlebars
thec0keman/emblem-site
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
Homepage for emblemjs.com
Contributions:32 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 5 months
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