# John Handley > Staff Software Engineer, ex-HomeDepot, ex-Twilio Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/johnhandley Software Engineer with 8 years of experience in system architecture design and implementation of services in distributed systems using industry best practices. Always focusing on scalability, maintainability, and usability. Built out and maintained a variety of services for various customers ranging from small local charities to enterprise services with more than 15 million users. Love building out tools, services, and libraries to optimize workflows. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Veho Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area ### Staff Software Engineer, Information Governance @ Twilio Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas, United States Architected privacy focused solutions for distributed systems within Twilio’s data platform using Policy Based Access Control Shadowed architects and principal engineers over best practices and tackling legal compliance solutions targeting thousands of internal services Worked with vendors and potential acquisitions to build out distributed privacy compliance services and solutions Developed APIs in gRPC as well as API Gateways to hide internal complexity of our architecture Built out service cataloging systems employing custom schemas both upon HCL and YAML Lead the architecture discussions around an internal policy driven filtering process for global data-streams that cross region boundaries ### Staff Software Engineer @ The Home Depot Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Austin Acted as an inventor and assisted in the drafting of a pending patent for The Home Depot (US20220232044 ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM) Built out a policy based access control system for the org that was provided to the other customer facing systems to act as an authority on component level user access for our loyalty products Managed and maintained an app as it reached its current 15 million users for the last year and saw the number of experiences hosted on the platform grow from 5 to 41 with the number of independent teams contributing grow from 4 to 9 with over 30 total developers working in the codebase concurrently Completely rebuilt the b2b code review and artifacting pipelines for the User/Order/Loyalty Management experiences that would take from 3 days per deployment to a few minutes per deployment ### Senior Software Engineer @ The Home Depot Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Austin, Texas Area Created a component library in react to be used in multiple apps Org wide. Created a form library in react to be used in multiple apps Org wide Acted as lead engineer of the b2b (pro-users) experience as it was taking on its initial users and the beta customers ### Software Engineer @ Visionaire Partners Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Austin, Texas Area Created a Form generating library for Angular that reduced the time needed to make and maintain a form from days to hours Helped begin the process of migrating the existing Angular app to React and architecting the final app for business customers ### Full-Stack Software Developer @ HCSS Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sugar Land Primarily a .NET developer where I worked on the SAFETY, SKILLS, and FORMS products for HCSS for the first year. My last 3 months were focused on the Web port of their Heavy Job product. During my time here I was part of a team that utilized the Agile process and paradigm. I was the main front-end developer for most of my time in the first year and helped establish new patterns as well as gave lectures over best practices for front-end development and towards the end configured the Safety product to be able to use Typescript 2.4 with Webpack 2 as well as set up unit testing for the product. I briefly worked with Vue.js which I found to be very useful for specific use cases in the Heavy Job Product. Overall, it was wonderful working for a company with such a great culture that helped mentor me and expand my skill set. I learned so much while working there. ### Quality Assurance Intern @ HCSS Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 I did a variety of testing on various products both mobile and web. I also was in charge of a side project wherein I developed a developer facing web application. This application would run scripted, scheduled tests on the various web products by simulating user interaction and returning realistic timings of various resources. It would then graph and model this data for the developers in a convenient web page. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Baylor University Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-handley-1aa905a8 --- Source: https://flows.cv/johnhandley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/johnhandley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22