About

John Boggs is a seasoned Sr. Engineering Manager at Segment, the industry-leading customer data integrations provider. With over 11 years of relevant experience, he has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions for web and distributed systems. His expertise spans across multiple programming languages, including Go, C++, Java, Scala, Python, Ruby, JavaScript ES5&6, Bash, and Perl. John graduated from MIT with the highest possible GPA, majoring in Math. He has worked on systems, data, and web engineering teams, and his experience as a Senior Software Engineer has helped him develop a deep understanding of the software development life cycle. Currently, John is the Engineering Manager for Learning and Development at Segment. As a one-man team, he is responsible for building out Segment's Engineering Learning and Development programs, ensuring that the company's engineers are well-equipped to handle the challenges of a growing company. He has already started working with newly hired engineers to help them ramp up at Segment quickly. In his previous role at Segment, John managed the Foundation Tooling team, which was geographically divided between Vancouver and San Francisco. The team was responsible for handling developer productivity, shared logging, monitoring, and alerting services, shared libraries, operational tools, testing environments, and tooling. He has also worked as a Technical Product Manager, where he worked on Segment's data infrastructure as a service. John's TechStack includes Senior Software Engineer, Web, Software Engineer, Javascript, Terraform, ECS, MongoDB, Kafka, Amazon Athena, test, Redis, Postgres, product manager, AWS, infra, Python, Ruby, Scala, Java, Docker, and Frontend. He has a strong background in software engineering and is passionate about using technology to solve complex problems.