About

John Engler is a technical lead at Databricks with over 17 years of relevant experience in software engineering, data science, data engineering, and product management. He is a multi-armed robot with a tool-belt of skills that is always hunting down poor usability and challenging open-source problems. His prime directive is to push the boundaries of technology and the internet to make the world a better place for all users. John is a full-stack engineer with experience in front-end, middle-tier, and backend engineering. His most recent work has focused on middle-tier PHP and front-end JavaScript development. He is passionate about open-source software, scalable event processing, developer productivity, user-centric security, usability, tight-knit teams, and difficult problems. As a technical lead at Databricks, John is responsible for leading the execution team and driving technical excellence. He was previously a senior software engineer at Databricks, where he made data science easy for customers. Before that, he was a tech lead/manager at Box, where he led the user flow optimization engineering team and played a key role in improving user conversion rates in high-value flows. He also helped kickstart a new team focused on data engineering and established an engineering mentorship program. John holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has a strong tech stack that includes senior software engineer, frontend, backend, Javascript, PHP, software engineer, data scientist, data engineering, product manager, and infra. He is always looking for challenging problems to solve and is committed to making a positive impact on the world.