John Vilk
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Vilk is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently improving code authorship and developer environments at Stripe from Corvallis, Oregon. He brings deep research roots—a PhD from UMass Amherst and years in the PLASMA lab—where he built tools like BLeak and Doppio that found production memory leaks and ran unmodified native apps in the browser. At Stripe he’s driven developer productivity and environment improvements, translating research-grade tooling into large-scale engineering workflows. His background includes shipping a time-traveling debugger at Microsoft Research and mentoring multiple successful Google Summer of Code projects, evidencing a knack for turning novel systems research into practical developer tools. Notably, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on production impact, regularly surfacing subtle runtime issues in widely used web platforms.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (200)
google-analytics10
browserfs10
browser10
api10
causal-inference10
child-process10
nodejs10
filesystem10
buffer10
php10
privacy10
windows10
email-client10
imap-client10
dropbox-api10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jvilk/locate-java-home
Oct 2015 - Aug 2018
Locates JAVA_HOME on any platform, and can differentiate between different versions.
Contributions:4 PRs, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
java
jvilk/site
Jan 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:42 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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