John Sokel
Principal Engineer at Evolve
Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Sokel is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of focused experience building large, efficient, and highly available systems, currently leading architecture and delivery at Evolve after an eight-year principal role at Journera. He brings deep systems and backend expertise across Go, Java, and Python, plus hands-on work with web services and microcontrollers, and has shipped real-time, high-throughput systems for companies like GrubHub and OptionMonster. Comfortable in teams of three or three hundred, John has repeatedly translated demanding production requirements into resilient, scalable designs—from streaming market data to real-time order processing on Android tablets. Based in Michigan, he combines director-level leadership with sustained individual contribution, often stepping into both hands-on engineering and technical strategy. A practical tinkerer as well as an architect, he favors pragmatic solutions that balance efficiency, availability, and operational simplicity.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Harper College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
amazon-s35
amazon5
aws4
aws-s34
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PuffinWare/spark-tstat
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 2 months
PuffinWare/puffin-boards
Feb 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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