John Ravan
Senior Backend Engineer at Spotify
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ravan is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across healthcare, defense, and media — currently shaping backend services at Spotify from Mount Pleasant, SC. He combines deep practical experience in .NET and enterprise systems with a strong academic foundation (MS in Software Engineering, ongoing PhD work in Computer Science), and he teaches computer science as an adjunct at The Citadel. His background includes leading engineering efforts at Tabula Rasa HealthCare and Booz Allen’s Agile hub, where he specialized in production-grade integrations for complex domains like medication management and government systems. Known as a "certified code slinger," he brings a pragmatic, mentorship-oriented approach that balances rigorous engineering with a passion for educating the next generation of developers.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of South Carolina-ColumbiaBachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at The Citadel
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Github Skills (50)
mhealth10
java-api10
java9
hapi9
api9
hl79
hl7-fhir9
data-api8
hapi-fhir8
kraft7
confluent-platform7
rest-api6
validate6
rest6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jtravan3/git-practice
Dec 2019 - Jun 2023
Simple repository to practice your git skills
Contributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 6 months
git-gui
jtravan3/jtravan3
Aug 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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