John Tornow
Chief Technology Officer at Puck
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Tornow is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience building products from napkin sketches to scalable businesses and exits. Currently CTO at Puck after founding and scaling Air Mail into a half-million-weekly-reader brand, he excels in the earliest, messiest stages—shaping vision, UX, schema, and architecture while also shipping production-ready systems. He has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver membership billing, high-volume email delivery, privacy-first analytics, events and ecommerce platforms, and robust CRM integrations. As co-founder of Electragram and Zig, he combines an obsession for refined UX and data portability with pragmatic engineering practices: ruthless simplicity, rapid iteration, and fewer meetings. Based in Dallas, he pairs startup grit with calm execution and a track record of turning early ambiguity into millions in ARR.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at York College of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (23)
session-management10
authentication10
session-cookie10
hotel-booking10
ruby9
rails9
authorization9
ruby-on-rails8
paperclip6
width4
height3
rich-text2
django1
python1
dm1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jdtornow/tally
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
A simple Rails engine for capturing counts of various activities around an app
Contributions:5 releases, 73 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 10 months
ruby-on-railscapturingrailsrails-engineruby
jdtornow/challah
Feb 2012 - May 2022
User authorization and session management in Rails.
Contributions:15 releases, 342 commits, 31 PRs in 10 years 5 months
ruby-on-railsauthorizationrailsrails-engineuser-authorization
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