John L. is an incoming software engineer on the Apps Platform Team at Rippling, having previously served as a software engineer intern on the same team. Prior experience includes a software development engineer internship at Amazon within the Profit Intelligence Organization, and a software engineer internship at Shopstack, a YCombinator-backed startup, where mobile applications for iOS and Android were developed. John L. also held the position of academic intern for CS61B (Data Structures) at UC Berkeley, providing guidance to students, and worked as a teacher assistant in the East Side Union High School District, supporting math coursework. Early experience includes an internship at SunPower Corporation, where a startup model based on a solar project was developed. John L. obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.