John Salzarulo
Co-founder CEO at Hoist
California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Salzarulo is a founder-operator and software leader with 11 years of experience building product-led companies and end-to-end engineering teams, currently scaling Hoist to modernize the home services industry with backing from top VCs. He blends hands-on full‑stack development and product design—having built platforms from MVP to production at WellStart and launched consumer-facing services like Balanced Home and Landlady—with a focus on converting leads into booked jobs for residential painters. Comfortable wearing CEO and Head of Engineering hats, he has led acquisition, pricing, and service‑ops integrations as well as the technical architecture that powers them. A designer-minded developer and aspiring minimalist photographer, he brings an eye for pixel-level detail alongside pragmatic systems thinking. Notably, his background spans both supply-chain operations and SaaS product startups, giving him uncommon empathy for operational constraints when shipping software. Based in California, he combines startup grit with a track record of taking ideas from prototype to revenue and VC backing.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Back End Web Development Computer Programming, Back End Web Development Computer Programming at General AssemblyPre-Accelerator Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Pre-Accelerator Program Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Techstars Startup NextAA Communication General, AA Communication General at College of the Canyons
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Github Skills (101)
bash10
multiple-languages10
shell10
cli10
rails-app10
zsh10
golang9
powershell9
opentok9
python9
ruby9
asdf-vm9
tokbox9
elvish9
cli-app9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
main-street/code-challenge
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
A very basic rails app to be used to assessment and testing purposes only.
Contributions:4 reviews, 55 PRs, 16 pushes in 8 months
ruby-on-railsrails-appbasic-rails-apprailstesting
Johnsalzarulo/expertreports
Jan 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:15 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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