John Yegs
Senior Software Engineer at Kong Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Yegs is a product-oriented senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, consumer-facing systems across the full stack. He’s led technical efforts at companies like Side, Vrbo, and Kong, specializing in payments, event-driven architectures, and performance optimizations that materially reduced costs and sped delivery. Notable wins include a 75% cut to subscription costs by migrating sensitive payment data off Salesforce, and shipping a consumer payments dashboard and reconciliation APIs at scale. Comfortable collaborating with product and design, he prioritizes first-principles thinking, rapid MVPs, and iterative shipping to validate assumptions. He pairs hands-on engineering (TypeScript/Node, Postgres, GCP, Pub/Sub) with team leadership and mentorship to move cross-functional initiatives forward. Based in Austin, he thrives in fast-paced environments where technical rigor meets product impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at James Madison University
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Github Skills (38)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jyeg/curate
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:66 pushes, 33 branches in 1 month
jyeg/portfolio
May 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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