Summary
John Montroy is a Principal Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building systems at Radiant. He specializes in backend, DevOps and big-data infrastructure with heavy Go and solid Python skills, and a history of Scala and R work. John has driven platform engineering at Walmart Global Tech and built Spark/Kafka/Cassandra pipelines at Jet.com, with deep hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD. He recently spent time at the Recurse Center developing audio plugins (CLAP) alongside distributed-systems work, showing a taste for applying systems thinking to creative domains. A Middlebury-trained physicist and former CERN intern, he brings scientific rigor to production engineering — and a wry admission of having "too much Kubernetes."
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Middlebury College
NA, NA, NA, NA at Freie Universität
German