John Shiple

Experience

Standard Draft

CTO 2022 - Present (about 2 years)

Lead a technology development team (4) to build and launch the company's initial suite of products in ReactJS, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL; Lead the design of the User Experience... more

Open Colony

CTO 2019 - 2021 (about 2 years)

CTO and first engineer on board. Led technical design while building the initial team; Led Product efforts and designed the User Experience. Designed and managed the onboarding... more

Start Engine

CTO 2018 - 2019 (about 1 year)

Scaled the largest SEC-regulated equity crowdfunding platform in the United State; Doubled development’s release velocity within 6 months through new hires, cross-functional... more

Aditazz

Vice President of User Experience and Apps 2017 (11 months)

Used Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, ReactJS, PostgreSQL, and WebGL (3d/VR) to architect and build the company’s flagship MVP (RoomEditor) in 8 months; Assembled... more

FreelanceCTO

CTO 2008 - 2017 (about 9 years)

Built, trained, and managed development teams for over 20 startups, small- to mid-sized businesses, and large-scale enterprises; Launched, scaled, or triaged companies by... more architecting, building, and managing technology teams and products.

Company highlights:
• mySidewalk CTO (2011 - 2013): Used AWS, Microsoft.NET, MySQL, and MVC.NET 4 to rebuild the entire product with third-party developers (7 people in Los Angeles and Belarus) to build the new platform in 4 months; original prototype supported 10 cities (clients); one year later, after Sales was enabled, the platform supported over 120 cities nationwide (1,200% improvement). Supported $4M funding raise and oversaw the technical acquisition of VoterTide.com. By year 3, 600 cities across the United States, including 8 of the top 10 cities by size, used the service (500% improvement).
• EdgeMAC CTO (2013 - 2014): Conducted a comprehensive technical audit to uncover and document technical debt in a private Data Center with Virtualized Windows Servers running Microsoft.NET and SQL Server 2005/2008 applications; developed a year-long technology roadmap to address significant technical debt; resolved outages and moved technology out of emergency mode; developed and deployed significant people-, process-, and technology- related improvements to restart new product development; managed development and data teams (6 people in Anaheim), including team members (and areas of the product) that required security clearance.
• Cloud Cover Music CTO (2014 - 2015): Resolved major performance issues in AWS, iOS/Android applications, and a proprietary Android Media Player to enable the business to add more clients; restructured the entire development team (3 people in Los Angeles) from scratch; used AWS, ReactJS, MySQL, and HTML5 to rebuild the entire platform to address major performance and scalability issues in 6 months; redefined music processing processes and standards to streamline new song and playlist production; developed the first open-source based HTML5 music streaming engine for legal, streamed music for business; enabled the company's next round of funding for $8.5M.
• RelishMIX CTO (2012 - 2018): Triaged hostile development resource; used AWS, LAMP, Bootstrap, and proprietary data feeds to reset the technology platform; built an outsourced development team (5 people in Morocco) from scratch; stabilized data analytics platform in a 1-year period to become a leading entertainment analytics provider; trained local business team to manage and work with remote developer resources; enabled new feature development and traffic growth when both were not previously possible.
• Intern Sushi CTO (2011 - 2012): Used AWS, Microsoft.NET, MySQL, and MVC.NET 4 to rebuild the entire product team because the original prototype never launched; sourced an entirely new outsourced team (7 people in Los Angeles and Belarus); leveraged third-party developers to build the new platform in 4 months; after launch, over 6,000 companies offered internships to over 18,000 students; in the next year, over 15,000 companies (250% improvement) offered internships to over 75,000 students (>400% improvement).

Employee

FreelanceCTO, Aditazz, Start Engine, Open Colony, Standard Draft

Projects

Drone Squad App

Discover local drone meet-ups and races and effortlessly run

Connect with your local FPV pilots for fun and competition. Trusted by the Drone Sports Association and clubs in over 20… · More

With Pete Mauro, Christian Nicco Bugarin, Rafai Eddy, Philippe Lewicki, Jesse Vander Does, Bryan Truong

Technology Credit Report

Assess your technology stack.

Founder · I contributed major elements and then co-developed the product.

The Technology Credit Report standardizes the method for auditing… · More

With Mike Robinson

Education

About

Achievements

• StartEngine: Scaled the #1 SEC-regulated equity crowdfunding provider. Launched the only legal way to buy company equity with Bitcoin. Designed the first automated equity trading system for crowdfunded companies
• Bigstep: Co-founded company that raised over $70 million grew to a team-size of over 150, and supported over 100,000 customers. The company was acquired by Affinity Internet
• Hilton Hotels: Rebuilt the company intranet that interfaced with 11 technology groups and their services, supported thousands of corporate and hotel employees, and supported over 60,000 franchisees and their hospitality employees
• GeoCities: Monetized the platform by inventing pop-up ads and Increasing ad inventory over 1,000% with no change in CPM. Enabled acquisition by Yahoo for over $3 billion a year later

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Executive and Technical Leadership Technology Strategy and Architecture Business and Operations Strategy Data Architecture User Experience Design Team Building and Mentoring Product Roadmaps Technology Planning Web Interface Design Usability Advertising Agile Amazon Web Services Audit CMS Consulting Customer Relationship Management Data Management Distributed Systems Due Diligence E-Commerce Entrepreneurship HTML Management Planning Product Product Development Product Management Project Management User Interface Venture Capital Video Web Services

Locations

Austin Atlanta Los Angeles Southern California

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

The Art of Scalability

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Raising my daughter

What's your super power?

Writing things down

What words of wisdom do you live by?

People, Process, Technology, and Product. We can talk technology and product all day along, but unless we are systematically addressing people and process, only then can the magic happen.

What was the most impactful class you took in school?

Laboratory in Computer Science - it taught me how to work in a team before being on a team

John Shiple

Technology executive with over 15 years in delivering product and technological transformation. Hands-on strategic technology leader.