John Sawers
Senior Manager Product Engineering at Emotional API
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolJohn Sawers is a Senior Manager of Product Engineering based in Greater Boston with 11 years of experience orchestrating full-stack web development and product-level architecture. He describes himself as a technologist who bridges Rails, JavaScript, CSS, performance optimization, and infrastructure decisions—knowing not just how to build features but where each layer fits in the stack. At Privia Health he leads product engineering teams, emphasizing architecture, SDLC improvements, and mentorship to drive reliable delivery. A seasoned public speaker, he brings human-centered topics like emotional intelligence into technical forums, helping teams improve collaboration and developer craft. His unusual background in choreography and computer graphics informs a pragmatic, design-aware approach to UI/UX and performance trade-offs. Colleagues know him for translating broad strategy into concrete engineering practices and mentoring engineers to do better work.
11 years of coding experience
B.A., Computer Graphics / Choreography, B.A., Computer Graphics / Choreography at Marlboro College
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Github Skills (26)
tabs-management10
firefox-addon9
chrome-extension9
webextension9
rails8
chrome8
browser-extension8
firefox7
ruby-on-rails7
html6
css-frameworks6
operating-system6
web-standards6
css6
layout6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pdad04/blocipedia
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 13 comments in 27 days
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