# John Jago

> Software Engineer

Location: Rockville, Maryland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnjago

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Workiva
Jan 2024 – Present

### Co-founder & CTO @ PeachPay, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Ames, Iowa, United States
Technical co-founder of a startup that set out to innovative in ecommerce payments and checkout. Led a team of ~10 engineers. We processed millions of dollars in revenue for our merchants and received funding from Automattic and the former President of Mastercard Europe.

### Software Engineer @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Maintained and refactored internal applications for managing retirement accounts built with the Spring Framework for Java. Introduced test coverage to legacy applications using the approval testing technique.

### Web Developer @ Iowa State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
At the Office of Student Financial Aid, I led a team of students in managing high traffic websites for the university and developing web applications with React and Laravel. This position had no full-time technical supervisor, which allowed us to take ownership of engineering decisions. I hired six student employees and introduced GitLab CI/CD to streamline our deployment process.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Back-end development for retirement accounts.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Back-end development, working on transaction processing systems in Java.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Principal Financial Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Interned on a front-end development team building out UIs using a custom JavaScript framework in collaboration with UX designers.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
NLP research with Dr. Zhu Zhang through the University Honors Program.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering
Iowa State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnjago
- Website: https://johnjago.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22