About

John Gaughan is a highly skilled software developer with a passion for building and improving people-centered, reliable, and innovative apps. With over 4 years of relevant experience, John has expertise in developing back ends and data infrastructures, particularly in Python, SQL, JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5. He is proficient in various frameworks and libraries such as Flask, React, Node.js, Pandas, and NumPy. John is also knowledgeable in design and infrastructures such as Heroku, Web API, Web Forms, Json, and Bootstrap, and databases like PostgreSQL and SQLite. Aside from his technical skills, John has a diverse professional background that includes legal and journalistic research and reporting, filing and information management, event and project logistics, public speaking and presentation, and communication and active listening. He is also fluent in written and spoken Spanish and is proficient in Mac and Microsoft Office Suite. Currently, John is working as a Legal Assistant - Environmental Insurance at langsam stevens silver & hollaender, llp, where he performs balanced monitoring, research, reporting, and data compilation/analysis for 17 interrelated polluted properties. He collaborates with his supervisor and group to maintain task management information for 280+ tasks across 70 matters. John has also researched and prepared a 5,800-word holistic report on property's development and pollution cleanup history, informing mediation efforts in multi-million dollar complex litigation. John's past professional experience includes working as a Research Intern at Jeff Benedict, author, where he located and analyzed legal documents connected to a dozen events and lawsuits. He contributed over 90 pages of detailed biographical episodes, with citations, to a major project's core document and proactively prepared questions and key contextual information for his supervisor's journalistic interviews. He also worked as an Editor at The Herald at Southern Virginia University, where he wrote two of the four most-read stories published by the Herald in the 2017-2018 school year, launched efforts to develop a media alumni network, and initiated and developed a style guide to create brand consistency. John has a Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature/Letters from Southern Virginia University and is currently pursuing a Full Stack Web Development / Python + Data Science degree from Coding Temple. With his technical and professional skills, John is a valuable asset to any organization that values innovation, reliability, and people-centeredness.