John Weachock

Corning, NY 14830
jweachock@gmail.com ‒ 607.323.1269
github.com/scizzorz

Education

2017 M.S., Computer ScienceBinghamton University

2015 B.S., Computer ScienceBinghamton University

Employment

2021 - present Senior Software EngineerBlock, Inc.

2019 - 2021 Senior Software EngineerCorning Incorporated

Project ArchitectMaterials Informatics

Pioneer the development, architecture, tooling, and prototypes of a novel research operations platform
Devise and implement an innovative graph-based data system that allows for rapid, intuitive, and organic exploration of data and concepts

Auxiliary EngineerEnterprise Risk & Intelligence

Secured funding for an auxiliary engineering pilot engagement with a financial analysis team
Accelerate team development through hands-on mentorship of SWE best practices and effective tooling
Build a robust and reusable development environment with Docker

Team LeadDigital Transformation: Application Development

Collect and align plans for policy change to improve software developer culture and working conditions
Advocate for engagement with open-source communities and secured major sponsorships with PyCon
Organize networking sessions focused on building a software development community

2017 - 2019 Software EngineerCorning Incorporated

Delivered multiple internal web applications to accelerate research development
Overhauled data pipelines for capturing and normalizing pilot manufacturing data with full traceability
Led training sessions for technologies like Git, Python, Rust, Go, and Docker

2016 - 2017 Software Engineering InternCorning Incorporated

2005 - present Web Developerfreelance

Projects

2020 Moldtask runnergithub.com/xtfc/mold

Developed a command-line tool to help organize common software project chores
Mold is designed to be a toolchain agnostic task runner with easily reusable task modules

2019 MilkGit porcelaingithub.com/scizzorz/mold

Developed a new Git porcelain using libgit2 and Rust
Milk is designed to improve the human experience of interacting with Git repositories

2018 Maskprogramming languagegithub.com/scizzorz/mask

Designed a new programming language to experiment with some novel syntax and semantics
Wrote source-to-bytecode compiler and bytecode interpreter in Rust

Skills

Languages
Python
Rust
Lua
Go

Tools
Tmux
Vim
Git
Shell

DevOps
AWS
Docker
CI/CD
Terraform

Data
SQL
Graph
RDF
NoSQL

APIs
OpenAPI
REST
JSON-RPC
gRPC

Interests
Automation
Data Systems
Manufacturing
Tooling

Hobbies
Woodworking
Game Design
Electronics
Leathercraft