John Simerlink
Senior Software Engineer at CoverMyMeds
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Simerlink is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience helping seed-stage startups turn ideas into production-grade, scalable architectures. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he combines hands-on full-stack development with cloud-native microservices, Kubernetes deployments, and GitOps CI/CD workflows. He has founded and co-founded multiple ventures, led product and engineering efforts, and prefers a stack that blends functional and modern web technologies (ReasonML/React, Elixir/Phoenix, GraphQL). His background includes roles across startups and larger engineering teams at CoverMyMeds, Switchbox, and GE Aviation, giving him practical experience from prototyping MVPs to operating production systems. Known for focusing teams on the 20% of features that deliver 80% of impact, he pairs pragmatic product sense with strong technical execution. An early leader in student tech organizations, he still brings that builder mentality to mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Walnut Hills High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (26)
graph-drawing10
bit10
javascript9
webgl9
graph9
data-visualization9
aws8
typescript7
cloud-infrastructure7
infrastructure-as-code6
internet6
cloud-development-kit6
traceroute6
twitter5
chrome-extension4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JohnSimerlink/johnsimerlink.github.io
Oct 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
branchesorg/branches_front_end
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1279 commits, 47 PRs, 586 pushes in 8 months
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