John Wright
Principal Software Engineer Transperfect at TransPerfect
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Wright is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building web and backend systems, currently shaping translation products at TransPerfect. He began in application integration at Sprint and earned recognition there for developer tools that diagnosed cross-application issues, later deepening his expertise in JavaScript and web technologies across companies like Adobe and EchoStar. A self-motivated lifelong learner, he contributes to open source—most notably modernizing the Node.js REST client restler with streaming multipart uploads and version migrations. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he also ships consumer-grade iOS apps with his wife, reflecting a practical focus on software people actually use.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
Github Skills (4)
javascript10
nodejs10
streaming9
file-handling8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
danwrong/restler
Feb 2010 - Mar 2010
REST client library for node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `restler` library by migrating it to a newer version of Node.js, updating code to align with the new version. They also refactored the multipartform component to enable streaming, and implemented streaming support for uploading files. In addition, the user fixed minor bugs, improving the library's functionalities.
nodejsrestrest-client
mrjjwright/systematic
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:2 PRs, 60 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
visual-studio-code
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