John Stewart
Principal Software Technical Lead at Nightwing
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Stewart is a Principal Software Technical Lead with 13+ years delivering mission-driven, cross-platform systems in cybersecurity and defense R&D. He combines hands-on engineering—building test infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and core ops (GitLab, NGINX, Samba, VPN)—with people leadership, having grown and mentored a 12+ person team supporting a $30M+ Android platform. Known for translating direct customer feedback into fundable capabilities, his work cut operational downtime by 60% and grew contract value by 20% through pragmatic, user-informed tooling. A persistent problem-solver, he has a track record of finding open-source solutions that accelerated projects and creating test frameworks others adopted company-wide. Based in Virginia, he blends systems engineering rigor from avionics and electrical backgrounds with modern automation using Python, Docker, and GoCD.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (8)
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Github contributions (4)
jx1471/Dynamic-Data-Display-Doc-And-Branch
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 3 days
jx1471/git-cmd
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 8 days
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