John Rood
Senior Software Engineer at Forerunner
Batavia, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Rood is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, accessible web applications for education, public sector, and civic tech. He blends deep frontend expertise (Angular, Vue, TypeScript, Storybook, Lit) with robust backend and infra skills (Node/NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker/Kubernetes) to deliver production-ready features and experiments. At Codecademy he led AI and discoverability initiatives, A/B experiment platform migrations, and accessibility efforts, and at Forerunner he’s applying those strengths to disaster resilience and local government tools. He’s practiced in geospatial systems (Mapbox, Esri, Leaflet), real-time and reporting systems, and monorepo/testing workflows that keep large codebases maintainable. Comfortable translating Figma mockups into accessible components and mentoring engineers, he also brings uncommon domain depth from projects spanning K-12 platforms to transportation GIS.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Theology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Theology at Moody Bible InstituteVergennes Union High School
Github Skills (151)
web-performance10
creative-commons10
fundamentals10
javascript10
angular10
cli10
electron10
typescript10
nodejs10
documentation10
css10
material-design10
glossary10
angular-cli10
web-framework10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jrood/jrood.github.io
May 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
jrood/jrood
Sep 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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