Summary
John Schettino is a retired technology leader with 30+ years of experience designing and operating internet-scale systems, from research labs to production services at Meta, Microsoft, and Symantec. He blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and invention—holding multiple patents—with a passion for social software and cross-device user experiences developed at Samsung and HP. As a Production Engineering Manager at Meta he learned the nuances of scale and mentoring early-career engineers, and earlier roles emphasized operational intelligence, monitoring, and site reliability for massive services. Comfortable across OSes, databases, cloud platforms, and programming languages, he repeatedly turns broad curiosity into rapid technical mastery. Unusually, his career threads together R&D creativity and hard-core operations, making him as adept at prototyping novel user experiences as he is at keeping thousands of servers cooperating. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now focuses on life beyond traditional work while staying connected to the engineering community.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at George Mason University