Summary
John Woodell is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building full-stack web and data systems across startups and tech giants like Google and Twitter. He designs and ships production-ready applications from UI to data warehouse, with deep hands-on experience in Ruby, Python and JavaScript, and operational familiarity with UNIX racks as well as AWS and Google Cloud. John has led small engineering teams, improved developer productivity through CI/CD and workflow automation, and built data export and automation infrastructure for learning platforms and ad/commerce systems. His background in technical publishing, graphic design and UX informs pragmatic product-focused engineering and clean developer documentation. Currently maintaining open source projects at Netpress, he combines a craftsman’s attention to detail with a track record of shipping reliable systems that bridge design, data, and operations.
16 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
UC Berkeley Extension Computer Science, UC Berkeley Extension Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Project Management & Digital Arts, Project Management & Digital Arts at Stanford Continuing Studies
Bachelor’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor’s Degree Fine and Studio Arts at UC Santa Barbara