Summary
John Reinstra is an engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade systems in Python/Django and Go, currently based in Los Altos. He has deep fintech and productivity domain expertise from multiple roles at Robinhood—ranging from founding crypto team work to staff-level projects like IPO Access and wallets—and as a founding engineer at Monaco where he helped build a next-generation revenue platform. John combines startup founding chops (Co-founder of General Task and Acacia Trading) with hands-on backend ownership, shipping services that materially reduced costs and scaled product launches. He favors pragmatic, robust engineering: APIs, background systems, and automation that move teams faster. Outside typical resumes, he runs a personal venture (Johnglomerate) and routinely bridges product and infrastructure concerns, reflecting an operator-engineer mindset.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Menlo School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Stanford University