John Ledbetter

Experienced engineer and leader with a proven track record in building and scaling engineering organizations. Seeking opportunities to contribute to the growth and success of an innovative company.

B.S., Computer Science University of Colorado, Boulder

• GraphQL
• gRPC
• Helm/Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL
• React
• Redis
• Ruby/Rails
• Rust
• Terraform
• Typescript

Grayscale is an early stage, VC backed SaaS startup focused on recruiting and hiring automation.

• Led a small team of developers focused on delivering greenfield products quickly in response to customer feedback.
• Helped expand into the enterprise customer market by building and maintaining a SAML/SCIM standards-based Single Sign-On solution.
• Eliminated an expensive third-party vendor by implementing a robust direct API integration with SAP SuccessFactors.
• Supported account managers and support representatives by building an admin panel allowing them to perform common tasks without engineering.

CallRail is a marketing and analytics SaaS platform that helps businesses that depend on phone calls understand their inbound lead sources.

• Set the technical master plan for Engineering infrastructure, identifying both short and long term technical needs and solutions.
• Managed three teams of developers focused on telephony, infrastructure and core platform services.
• Reduced incident frequency and severity via implementing Service Level Objectives and a blameless incident postmortem process.
• Improved developer ownership, productivity and velocity by driving decomposition of a monolithic application into more maintainable and isolated services with well-defined gRPC interfaces.
• Designed, built and maintained a system which handled approximately 4,000 requests/second of embedded content to customer's websites.
• Designed, built and maintained the service managing SMS and MMS, handling approximately 20,000 inbound and outbound messages per day.

Rivalry was a two-person startup that focused on quantifying Sales Representative performances, and helping to drive improvement via coaching and gamification.

• Built an advanced reporting and sales gamification platform integrated with Salesforce.com.
• Managed deployment and operations along with the entire product development process.

Vitrue (acquired by Oracle) was a software company focused on social media marketing and analytics.

• Led a team of four developers overseeing the Virtue Analytics dashboard.
• Built and maintained a reporting engine that ingested and aggregated metrics across multiple social media platforms.

• Developed features and bug fixes for the Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall.
• Contributed to the design and development of an ASA security module for the Cat6k Router.