# John Pluchino

> Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnpluchino

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Persistent Systems, LLC
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
• Develop and maintain a full-stack Java desktop application for provisioning and validating MPU5 and Embedded
Module MANET radios, delivering new features for production teams and external customers.
• Refactored legacy multi-threaded code using modern concurrency improvements, resulting in performance
improvements and elimination of bugs.
• Mentored an intern on database performance analysis, guiding investigation that identified query inefficiencies and
achieved 80%+ reduction in fetch times at scale.
• Architected and developed Gradle plugin in Kotlin to automatically scan the codebase, identify error code
implementations, and generate comprehensive HTML documentation.

### Software Engineer @ Persistent Systems, LLC
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Newrez LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
• Completed various tickets and stories for a proprietary mortgage servicing software application.
• Primarily worked in C++ and SQL on a legacy code base providing both bug fixes and new features.
• Designed a proof of concept user story formatter that has built in grammar checking and scoring.
Presented a demo to company executives.

### REU Software Engineering Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Played a crucial role in the development of a WebAssembly benchmark suite by performing statistical
analyses (such as PCA) using Python.
• Performed dynamic and static analysis on benchmarks in various WASM runtimes and engines such as
V8, SpiderMonkey, JavaScriptCore, and Wasmtime.
• Provided essential decision-making input to diversify the benchmark suite based on the analyses.


## Education
### B.E. Electrical Engineering in Computer Engineering Track; Minor in Computer Science
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

### Xavier High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-pluchino-51482a286

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Last updated: 2026-04-13