Summary
John Verdone is a seasoned Full Stack Web Developer with 11 years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails and React applications, currently freelancing out of Town of Babylon, NY. He has driven measurable impact across startups and enterprises—leading greenfield Rails projects, improving test coverage from under 20% to over 80%, and boosting data-processing and user engagement metrics by double digits. John pairs backend expertise (Rails, PostgreSQL, DBT, Snowflake) with front-end polish in Typescript/React and operational know-how in Docker and AWS, enabling end-to-end delivery from APIs to visualizations. He’s repeatedly stabilized legacy apps and automated workflows—once automating 80% of bookings and pushing app stability to 99%—while mentoring teams and stepping into hiring and architecture decisions. Known for pragmatic TDD adoption and performance tuning (including speeding test suites by ~90%), he brings both hands-on coding and technical leadership to high-pressure product environments.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Flatiron School
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Suffolk County Community College
BS Political Science, BS Political Science at University at Buffalo