John Sherwood
Founder at Crowd9
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Sherwood is a founder and hands-on software leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling profitable SaaS products from first line of code to multi-million-user operations. He co-founded and CTO’d Gleam, growing it organically into a remote-first business serving 250M+ users while running infrastructure, SOC 2 compliance, and a bug bounty program without outside funding. Comfortable across Rails, Java, search stacks and AWS migrations, he combines pragmatic engineering with incident leadership and a knack for efficient, secure systems. Now building Bugbop to modernise bug bounty programs and serving as a non-executive chair at Crowd9, he continues to blend product-first entrepreneurship with deep operational expertise. A long-time remote-team builder and volunteer coding teacher, he’s equally focused on hiring great people and shipping low-friction solutions that solve real business problems.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Company Directors Course, Company Directors Course at Australian Institute of Company DirectorsBachelor of Computing (Computer Science/Software Development) with Honours, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science/Software Development) with Honours, Computer Science at Deakin University
Github Skills (161)
devise10
mvc10
authentication10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
background-service10
html10
csv10
fonts10
rails10
csv-parser10
font-awesome10
woff10
csv-reader10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Crowd9/silverpop
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
Silverpop Engage and Transact Ruby API -- Extracted from ShoeDazzle.com
To install drop in your project's vendor/plugin folder. Built on Rails 2.1.0. Requires hpricot, net/http, net/ftp, and uri.
Contributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years
vendorengageuritransactruby
Crowd9/Gleam-Wordpress
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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