Summary
John Stensland is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 12 years of professional experience building production-grade systems across cloud, streaming audio, and bioinformatics domains. He combines deep systems-level chops in Golang, C/C++, and DevOps—having built a custom HLS audio client for MLB, cloud automation and AKS reference architectures for Azure, and infrastructure pipelines for startups. As founder of Mandatory Freedom LLC he’s developing a novel image-to-audio synthesis tool that encodes images via Hilbert-curve pixel traversal into fully reversible audio, aiming to empower blind users (and interestingly reversible to support deaf users visually). His background spans finance-grade engineering at Morgan Stanley, computational biology research predicting microRNA regulators, and disciplined electronics troubleshooting from Navy service, highlighting a rare blend of algorithmic, systems, and hands-on hardware experience. John is currently productionizing his project with Kubernetes and container tooling while continuing consulting engagements.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, Master of Science Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at University of Sussex
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Binghamton University
complex systems summer school - 3 weeks, complex systems summer school - 3 weeks at New England Complex Systems Institute
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