John Tolly
CTO at Zealot Interactive
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Tolly is a veteran technology leader and CTO with over 11 years of systems engineering and benchmarking experience and a 20+-year history of technical roles spanning research engineer to executive. He has led product and QA strategy for streaming education hardware and software at Zealot Interactive, overseen hundreds of third-party test projects across networking, virtualization, storage, and security, and built hands-on APIs and data platforms to drive product decisions. Known for competitive analysis and standards-driven certification work, he combines deep lab-based performance benchmarking expertise (ixia, SwiftTest) with pragmatic product delivery and customer-facing operations. Equally comfortable writing test methodologies or managing distributed development teams, he brings a rare mix of rigorous measurement, technical writing, and entrepreneurial product sense rooted in real-world customer feedback.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Ranney SchoolComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at The George Washington UniversityStatement of Accomplishment, Galaxies and Cosmology, Pass, Statement of Accomplishment, Galaxies and Cosmology, Pass at Coursera (Online)High School, High School at Saint Andrew's School
Github Skills (23)
sqlite10
postgresql10
restful-api10
spreadsheet10
swagger10
airtable10
rest-api10
low-code9
no-code9
ros6
android-sdk6
trajectory-optimization5
restful3
rest3
arduino3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
edgetechlabs/fz-android-sdk
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
The Fret Zealot Android SDK
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
android-sdk
tolster710/dm_test
Aug 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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