John Allison

CoFounder, Board Member, CTO Emeritus

Customerio

Nov 2020 - Current (5 years 10 months)

Continuing to oversee Customer.io at the board level. Surpassing $30m ARR in Jan 2022 (https://customer.io/blog/customer-io-raised-our-series-a/), we're gearing up for our next growth milestone.

CoFounder & CTO

Customerio

Jan 2012 - Nov 2020 (8 years 11 months)

Founded and scaled Customer.io's Customer Engagement Platform for tech-savvy marketers who want more control and flexibility to craft and send data-driven emails, push notifications, SMS, and in app messages. Helped grow the company from $0 to $21m ARR while raising just $3.5m in capital as of March 2021 (https://republic.com/customer-io)

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Head of Engineering

ChallengePostcom

Apr 2010 - Mar 2012 (2 years)

Hired and managed a team of 6 engineers to build an online competition platform which hosts http://nycbigapps.com, http://challenge.gov, and over 200 others.

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Lead Developer

GoodCrush

Nov 2009 - Feb 2010 (4 months)

Responsible for feature development, testing, performance, and scalability leading up to the site's February launch.

Software Engineer

Gilt Groupe

Jun 2009 - Apr 2010 (11 months)

Led projects such as redesigning login/registration pages, redesigning the site navigation, and creating/launching giltman.com and vogue.gilt.com sites. Participated in recruiting and interviewing new members of the team. Gathered and participated in defining product requirements. Constantly focused on scalability and performance due to the unique traffic patterns of Gilt’s business model.

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

WePlay

Oct 2008 - May 2009 (8 months)

Building and Improving http://www.weplay.com using my expertise in web development (Javascript/CSS/HTML/RoR).

Web Contractor

Ruckus Wireless

Sep 2008 - Oct 2008 (2 months)

Responsible for building new websites, assisting with redesigns, updates/upgrades, etc. Using RubyOnRails, PHP, XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, web standards, cross-browser compatibility, and optimization techniques.

Contractor

IBM

Apr 2008 - Sep 2008 (6 months)

Contracting through IBM to work with Wal-mart associates on their self checkout system.

Software Developer

Acxiom

Jan 2005 - Apr 2008 (3 years 4 months)

Designed and developed "ajax"-type web applications on the JBoss platform. Used client side, web-based technologies such as HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript and an assortment of Java based tools behind the scenes. I was also responsible for moving the entire group of web applications to a standard CSS stylesheet to give the entire system a common look & feel.

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Programmer

iProv LLC

Mar 2004 - Aug 2004 (6 months)

Worked with iProv on several contract projects. Work included Excel macro customization, website design, MySQL/PHP website programming, JavaScript scripting, and Flash/template design of website for Coy’s Steakhouse.

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