Summary
John Zechlin is a Senior Manager of Engineering in Chicago with 11 years of hands-on software and leadership experience building resilient, cloud-connected systems. He has repeatedly combined technical ownership (C#, Python, Java, PostgreSQL, Bash) with people leadership—bootstrapping and mentoring scrum teams, driving agile transformation, and founding a software consultancy. At MotionDSP he helped migrate legacy standalone products into server ecosystems and led an organizational Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; more recently he scaled engineering delivery at HealthJoy and now Protegrity. His background includes defense and government systems, giving him a disciplined approach to requirements, security and sustainment along with startup-style rapid innovation. He volunteers with local community radio, a signal of his interest in civic engagement and communication beyond engineering. Colleagues value him as a pragmatic change agent who pairs deep technical craft with an ability to recover stalled projects and turn ambiguity into deliverable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Utah State University