John Zittlau
Distinguished Software Engineer at Jobber
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Zittlau is a Distinguished Software Engineer with 25+ years of hands-on experience building everything from embedded SoC sensors to enterprise-grade, high-availability services, and currently focuses on security, privacy, and infrastructure stability at Jobber. He combines deep architecture and incident-response experience—having taken projects from prototype medical devices to triaging data-center failures under peak load—with a track record of mentoring and leading senior engineers. Previously he ensured scalability and major system refactors at Intuit for TurboTax Online and owned technical hiring and senior engineering growth as Jobber’s Principal Engineer. He excels when solutions aren’t findable on Google, thriving under time pressure to produce pragmatic, auditable outcomes. Based in Edmonton with a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, he balances heads-down execution with a passion for coaching teams and improving organizational processes.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. in Computer Engineering, BSc. in Computer Engineering at University of Alberta
Github Skills (11)
component-library9
react8
atlantis8
s3-bucket5
storage4
aws-lambda4
aws-s34
aws4
serverless3
antivirus3
cloud-storage3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GetJobber/library_version_analysis
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 releases, 5 reviews, 36 PRs in 3 years 1 month
GetJobber/aws-s3-virusscan
Sep 2019 - Jan 2022
Free Antivirus for S3 Buckets
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
bucketsantivirusaws-s3s3-bucketsaws
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