John Spaetzel
Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Spaetzel is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of full-stack experience, currently building product and platform features at Dropbox. He progressed from Tier 1 support to engineering roles, demonstrating strong practical grounding in customer-facing systems and a steady track record of shipping reliable software since early career roles at InMotion Hosting and Outsite Networks. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that scale in large-team environments. His background combining hands-on support, early-career engineering, and long tenure at Dropbox suggests an engineer who pairs deep operational empathy with product-minded technical execution.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Old Dominion UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at The Governor's School for Science and Technology
English
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Github Skills (200)
redistimeseries10
batching10
redis-sentinel10
redis-streams10
pika10
authentication10
mapreduce10
haiku10
ruby10
publish10
esignature10
opentelemetry10
php-library10
ack10
commons10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jspaetzel/GroupMePHP
Mar 2014 - Apr 2021
PHP Client Library for GroupMe
Contributions:51 commits, 9 PRs, 36 pushes in 7 years 2 months
api-clientphp-clientclient-libraryphpgroupme
jspaetzel/meh.dev
Jul 2016 - Jan 2025
Code for meh.dev
Contributions:276 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 7 months
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