Summary
John Lockwood is a seasoned software engineer and founder who specializes in designing and scaling backend systems, with a 13-year track record spanning ETL pipelines, APIs, and multi-tenant databases. As Programmer/Owner of TackleTronics, he built and maintains the DoorToDoor Campaign for iOS, while leading a team that rebuilt a struggling Java ETL system into a Python-based solution using Pandas, Airflow, FastAPI, and SqlAlchemy to support rapid customer growth. He designed a multi-tenant database manager for MySQL 8 and PostgreSQL, migrated from MySQL 5.7, and implemented database strategies for JSON/JSONb, strict typing, and conflict resolution. He has hands-on experience deploying services on AWS with Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, and Terraform, and he authored monitoring docs for Kibana and Grafana to drive reliability. Known for mentoring teammates, on-call rotations, code reviews, and pair programming, he leverages AI-assisted coding to accelerate delivery. Based in Sacramento, CA, he combines strong programming depth with a pragmatic, product-focused mindset toward reliable, scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English