John Rush

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ABOUT ME

Deeply technical, yet able to explain in plain English. I love sharing my passion.

I have nearly 30 years of experience, including hands-on software development, technical people management, and executive-level execution. I am highly technical with strong people skills and a business focus. I have experience in multiple startups, independent contracting, and building world class products at both Microsoft and Adobe. Most recently, I built a small multi-discipline development team from scratch as the CTO of Fluent Forever.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Shipped code in the Windows operating system up until Window 8
• Successful startup exit through the acquisition of Syntrillium Software by Adobe
• Awarded a patent through my work at Fluent Forever
• Built an in-car, integrated human interface prototype for Intel’s autonomous driving program
• Credited on 13 games shipped on Xbox and Windows platforms

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)

Joined July 2023

EXPERTISE

TypeScript

5 years experience

Node.js

6 years experience

C++

6 years experience

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EMPLOYMENTS

CTO

Fluent Forever

2018-05-01-2022-12-01

Created a team from scratch to build the Fluent Forever website and mobile application based on the best-selling book of the same name.

Node.js

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

JavaScript

React Native

Infrastructure as Code

Express.js

AWS

Co-Owner

Studio Five27

2012-02-01-2018-05-01

As a co-owner, I was responsible for running the business; managing projects, clients, budgets, staffing, payroll, invoicing, and contrac...

As a co-owner, I was responsible for running the business; managing projects, clients, budgets, staffing, payroll, invoicing, and contracts. I also worked as a developer and technical consultant on a variety of projects including games/simulations, mobile apps, UDP/TCP networking, block chain, and web applications. Projects ranged from production quality applications, to live public demos, and internal proof of concepts for us and a variety of third-party contracts. The bulk of our work leveraged C# (using any of Unity3D, ASP.NET, WPF, UWP, and Xamarin), but I also used Python and C++ when needed. We used Microsoft Azure as our cloud provider of choice.

Python

C++

Python

C++

WPF

Azure

Xamarin

Microsoft SQL Server

ASP.NET

Unity

Senior SDE Lead

Microsoft

2005-11-01-2012-02-01

I managed a team of 10-15 developers in the Games Test Organization in Microsoft Game Studios. We built test workflow tools and core infr...

I managed a team of 10-15 developers in the Games Test Organization in Microsoft Game Studios. We built test workflow tools and core infrastructure components for PC and Xbox games testing. Tools included: real-time video capture, test case creation framework, scalable game telemetry back-end and reporting system, various configuration and workflow tools.

WPF

IIS

WPF

IIS

Active Directory

Game

Microsoft SQL Server

LINQ