Summary
John Schulz is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with six years of hands-on experience building web portals and kiosk systems, now leading engineering at EDGE in Chicago. He transitioned from hospitality to tech via Dev Bootcamp and DeVry, leveraging leadership, service-mindedness, and real-world problem solving honed as a private dining captain to manage cross-functional teams. His stack experience spans Ruby on Rails, React/Redux and Elixir/Phoenix, and he has repeatedly moved from individual contributor roles into engineering management across startups and mid-size companies. Known for marrying pragmatic delivery with developer mentorship, he has a track record of shipping citizen-facing civic tech and energy platform solutions that bridge UX and backend reliability.
6 years of coding experience