John Wnek

John Wnek has had a long and varied career in software engineering. In 2010, they began as Owner/Developer at Indra Technology Solutions, where they built and maintained various PHP-based websites using WordPress, Joomla, CodeIgniter, and custom PHP development. John also worked extensively with JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS, and performed MySQL and Apache server maintenance for client web solutions. In 2011, they moved to Fortitude Business Solutions as a Systems Administrator, where they successfully designed, implemented, and maintained a fully virtualized, highly available infrastructure for a call center. John's responsibilities included configuring and managing Windows and Linux web servers, SQL database administration, and hosted VoIP system management. In 2013, they joined Telonium Communications as a Full Stack Web Developer, where they worked with a team of developers to design and develop internal and client web applications using Javascript, Backbone.js, AngularJS, node.js, Ruby on Rails, Scala, and PHP. In 2015, they joined BLiNQ Media as a Software Engineer, where they actively developed and supported client-facing Ruby on Rails applications in a continuous integration environment. John also worked with a team adhering to Scrum methodologies and participated in planning efforts for a major internal restructure to a service-oriented architecture. Finally, they joined CallRail in 2015, where they held the roles of Principal Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, and Senior Software Engineer. In their roles, they led multiple development teams, led high-level architectural planning initiatives across multiple teams and departments, and did full stack web development using Rails, Angular, and AWS. In 2022, they began their current role as Head of Engineering at DepoDirect.

John Wnek obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Auburn University between 2005 and 2010.