John Rothfels
Co-founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Rothfels is a seasoned software leader and builder with 11 years of experience, currently co-founder and CTO of a YC W23 AI startup based in California. He has a track record of founding and scaling engineering organizations—early Head of Engineering at Sourcegraph, Director of Engineering at AppFolio after Dynasty.com's acquisition, and founding advisor to a real estate startup—bringing product-focused AI into leasing and operations. He also blends industry and academia, having lectured on scalable internet services at UCLA and taught statistical programming at Stanford, which informs his pragmatic approach to engineering education and developer experience. Comfortable across languages and systems from R and Python to large-scale distributed services, he has repeatedly taken early-stage ideas to acquisition and production. An understated thread through his career is mentoring technical teams to ship reliable, data-driven systems while staying close to hands-on implementation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford University School of MedicineBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (157)
sourcegraph10
styled-components10
code-generation10
visual-studio10
code-search10
editor10
code-interpreter10
developer-tools10
database10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
sql-server10
vscode10
nodejs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rothfels/philosophy
Sep 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
wikipythonphilosophywikipedia
foundation-ui/vscode-glass
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Glass extension for VSCode
Contributions:14 reviews, 42 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 month
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