John Reitano
Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Reitano is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Diego with a decade of experience building pragmatic, maintainable systems across startups and product teams. He combines a practical obsession with simplicity—measured by how quickly a new engineer can ramp up—with deep hands-on skills in Golang, Python, Ruby/Rails, Typescript, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. John has led core backend and data-sync initiatives at companies like mmhmm and Mozilla, helped launch AI-powered B2B products, and architected Layer 1 blockchain tooling as a founder and independent engineer. He emphasizes strong test suites and developer ergonomics to keep systems reliable and teams productive. A linguistics MA focused on NLP and a math BS underpin his tendency to blend rigorous thought with pragmatic engineering. Outside standard stacks, he’s built one-command blockchain deployment tools and generative-AI assistants, showing a habit of shipping novel infrastructure as open tools.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
German culture and economics, German culture and economics at University of RegensburgM.A., Linguistics (Natural Language Processing), M.A., Linguistics (Natural Language Processing) at Northwestern UniversityB.S., Mathematics, B.S., Mathematics at Santa Clara University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (99)
mvc10
ruby10
html10
rails10
lambda-functions9
api9
authentication9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
cli8
cosmos8
vim8
docker-container8
neovim8
aws-appsync8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ur-technology/go-ur
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:108 commits in 5 months
johnreitano/kcoin
Aug 2018 - Apr 2023
A stable cryptocurrency that algorithmically targets $1 USD using the Kowala Protocol
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
usdconsensusethereumblockchaincrypto
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