John Sonmez
Co-Founder at Bulldog Mindset
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Sonmez is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with 14+ years of experience building products, teams, and developer careers from San Diego. As founder of Rockstar Developer University and Simple Programmer, he coaches technically strong developers on personal branding, content-driven growth, and turning expertise into six-figure roles and businesses. He’s built and shipped production systems across .NET, C++, and web platforms, authored 55 Pluralsight courses, and led large-scale engineering improvements that dramatically reduced build and test times in past roles. Today he also co-founds The Wolves to help companies move from “using AI” to actually running operations on it, blending practical implementation with business outcomes. Notably, his work combines deep hands-on technical chops with a rare focus on developer career economics and audience-driven productization.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computers, Computers at Boise State University
Stackoverflow
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53answers
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Github Skills (18)
json10
architecture10
mq10
soap10
design-patterns10
xml10
csv10
webclient10
high-performance10
actionscript9
netcore9
xcode6
iphone6
adapter6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jsonmez/Defaultable-Dictionary
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 5 months
jsonmez/BATDemo
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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