John Stratton
Chief Technology Officer at Whitman College
Walla Walla, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Stratton is a CTO and computer scientist who blends academic rigor with product-focused R&D, leading compiler, runtime, and high-performance software initiatives across industry and higher education. With a PhD from UIUC and nearly a decade of leadership experience at MulticoreWare, he directs company-wide technology strategy and IP development while teaching and building curricula as an associate professor at Whitman College. His work spans bringing OpenCL to new platforms, designing compiler technologies for ML and signal processing, and optimizing software to harness consumer-class parallel hardware. Equally comfortable in the classroom and the lab, he has a track record of mentoring award-winning undergraduate researchers and translating research prototypes into industry-grade tools. Based in Walla Walla, he pairs deep systems expertise with a gamer-and-developer’s curiosity, often focusing on programmer productivity and practical performance engineering that few CTOs maintain hands-on.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (43)
command-line-utility8
ember-cli8
javascript6
crud5
react5
nodejs5
brackets4
typescript4
ember4
google-maps4
csv4
imports4
database4
api3
literals3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TechGladiator/comic-collection
Sep 2017 - Apr 2021
A database for comic book collectors
Contributions:6 releases, 284 commits, 84 PRs in 3 years 7 months
collectorscomic-bookdatabase
TechGladiator/inspired-heights
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:90 PRs, 123 pushes, 51 branches in 5 months
church
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