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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
authentication10
mapreduce10
esignature10
php-api10
opentelemetry10
php-library10
redis-client10
micronaut10
bloom-filter10
tomcat10
atomiclong10
queue10
json10
jcache10
hellosign-api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jspaetzel/meh.dev
Jul 2016 - Mar 2026
Code for meh.dev
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 280 pushes in 9 years 9 months
devblogjekyll
hellosign/hellosign-java-sdk
Jan 2019 - Apr 2022
A Java SDK for the HelloSign API.
Contributions:10 releases, 6 reviews, 39 commits in 3 years 3 months
hellosign-apijavaesignaturejava-sdksignature-requests
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