# John MacLaughlin > Software Engineer at Zip Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/johnmaclaughlin I'm a software engineer who likes to understand the problem he is trying to solve. Here are some of my values in decision making: - Identify the 20% of actions that drive 80% of results - Empathy and humility are admirable traits - Design with scalability in mind - Communication is critical ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Zip Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Lead Software Engineer @ Academia.edu Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 I lead the New Premium Products engineering team. My team incubates new products using the latest AI technologies to add to our premium subscription offering. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Academia.edu Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Lead Software Engineer @ Arine Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Software optimizes pharmacist management of patient conditions, medications, outreaches, reviews, recommendations, and followups Day to day responsibilities * Worked with product and superusers to understand and define product requirements * Broke down product requirements into technical requirements across engineering teams * Managed and support engineering team in implementation of features * Implemented features directly * Mentored junior software engineers * Interviewed and hired engineers for team Major projects * Enabled non-engineers to manage customer account configuration with an audit trail * Integrated SSO into pharmacist platform through AWS Cognito * Integrated 3rd party vendor into platform ### Senior Software Engineer @ Arine Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Carbon Lighthouse Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Software provides recommendations for improving building efficiency that can be tailored to the fidelity of data provided by the user Day to day responsibilities * Owned technical design and development of user-facing software * Collaborated with product management, data scientists, and other software engineers * Mentored junior developers Major projects * Developed frontend and backend of building management and analysis tool * Migrated DBMS from MongoDB to PostgreSQL of legacy application * Developed mobile application with offline mode capabilities ### Software Engineer @ GE Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Avitas Systems performs drone inspections on industrial pipelines, railroads, and phone lines and identifies areas that require maintenance, reducing the costs of unplanned outages and time spent manually performing these inspections. * Integrated both computer vision and tabular data analytics with platform for asynchronous invocation. * Architected complex analytic workflow dependencies: picking analytics and models based on asset-specific information and results of upstream dependencies. * Automated training/testing/validation of tabular analytics based on monthly ingestion of data. * Analyzed and implementing traditional computer vision analytics, and integrated deep learning-based models to workflow. * Designed debugging tools using EFK stack and RabbitMQ for easy monitoring of analytic health status. ### Software Development Intern @ GE Digital Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Foxboro, MA • Implemented isolation of plugins using RequireJS and AngularJS to allow multiple versions of the same module to be loaded in an application while still allowing communication between modules. • Collaborated on REST API to create standardized responses using Spring, Java, and MongoDB. • Standardized over 1,600 application tags to provide consistent naming convention. • Modularized client environment for simpler development for third party developers. • Created AngularJS documentation through ngDocs. • Designed recruitment website layout and created content. ### Cloud Architecture Intern @ GE Digital Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Charlottesville, Virginia • Decreased time spent on application installs by 2 hours/installation through VBScript and batch automation. • Scaled application installation process by 600% through VBScript and batch automation. • Created and implemented monitoring scripts for cloud-based applications using Python and batch scripting. • Simplified cloud architecture on Amazon Web Services from 7 security groups to 1 security group. • Standardized asset configuration in company-wide database. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Information Technology; Mathematics University of Virginia ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-maclaughlin --- Source: https://flows.cv/johnmaclaughlin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/johnmaclaughlin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11