John Stearns
Chief Technology Officer at Roo Code
Encinitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Stearns is a seasoned technology executive and current CTO at Roo, bringing two decades of software engineering and leadership experience across startups and large consumer platforms. He progressed through engineering and management roles at Glassdoor—culminating as Interim CTO—and earlier senior engineering positions at Yahoo! and Sony Online Entertainment, blending hands-on development with strategic product delivery. Based in Encinitas, California, he focuses on building reliable B2B systems and scaling engineering organizations while advising Roo Code on developer-facing initiatives. Known for moving from deep technical contributions to executive strategy, he pairs a practical computer science background from SUNY Fredonia with a track record of operationalizing complex web services.
1 year of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, Computer Science, BCS, Computer Science at State University of New York at Fredonia
Github Skills (8)
code-editor10
ide10
ai-agent10
cli10
theia7
marketplace6
vscode6
vscode-extension4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
RooCodeInc/Roo-Code
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Roo Code gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.
Contributions:152 reviews, 32 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 months
ai-agentcode-editor
cline/cline
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
Contributions:8 PRs in 21 days
cliide
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