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John Duncan
c/o Quorum
1 Thomas Circle
Washington, DC 20005
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John Duncan, software engineer
at Quorum Analytics since 2018.

Historical preservation
at The Cairo since 2023.

Previously, research intern
for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems
at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Received Bachelors of Science B.S.
in Computer Science Honors and Philosophy Honors
from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

From US, living in DC.

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ch'io faccio il canto della guerra eterna Fra luce a fango. Addio, Marinetti! for I sing the song of the eternal war Between light and mud. Goodbye, Marinetti!
— Ezra Pound, Canto LXXII1944 AD
Wir leben immer in einer Welt, die wir uns selbst bilden. We live always in a world that we ourselves construct.
— Johann Gottfried Herder, Übers Erkennen und Empfinden in der menschlichen Seele1774 AD
Verum esse ipsum factum What is true is precisely what is made
— Giambatista Vico, De Antiquissima Italorum Sapientia ex Linguae Originibus eruenda Librir Tres1710 AD
Et sic in infinitum And so on to infinity
— Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi1617 AD
Le Temps Venra The time will come
— Jean de Berry, Duke of Berry and Auvergne & Count of Poitiers and Montpensier~1340–1416 AD
Mortui vivunt, vivi pro eis sepeliuntur The dead are alive and the living are buried by them
— Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium~1180 AD
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit Everything changes, nothing perishes
— Ovid, Metamorphoses8 AD
τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἀνάμνησις ἐκείνων ἅ ποτ᾽ εἶδεν ἡμῶν ἡ ψυχὴ συμπορευθεῖσα θεῷ This is a recollection [anamnesis] of those things which our soul once beheld, when it journeyed with God...
— Plato, Phaedrus (249c)~370 BC
מַה־שֶּֽׁהָיָה֙ ה֣וּא שֶׁיִּהְיֶ֔ה וּמַה־שֶּׁנַּֽעֲשָׂ֔ה ה֖וּא שֶׁיֵּעָשֶׂ֑ה וְאֵ֥ין כָּל־חָדָ֖שׁ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃ Quid est quod fuit ipsum quod futurum est quid est quod factum est ipsum quod fiendum est What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new beneath the sun.
— Ecclesiastes 1:9, Kohelet (Solomon), son of David, king in Jerusalem~450–180 BC
ἀκούοντί ποι χθονίᾳ φρενί Deep in the earth, their heart listens
— Pindar, Pythian V462 BC
𒃻 𒌑𒄖 𒌣𒀀 𒃻𒈨𒃻𒊏 níg ú-gu dé-a níg-me-gar-ra It is inconceivable that something is lost forever
— The Instructions of Shuruppak~2600 BC

Quorum

Nel mezo delcamin dinrã uita Mi trouai ᵱuna ſelua oſcura Che la diriƈta uia era ſmarrita (Foligno, Neumeister/Angelini) Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Ché la diritta via era smarrita. (Gutenberg) Midway along the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. (Longfellow)
— Dante, Comedìa: Inferno, Canto I~1308-1321 AD
Published 1472

Between 2018–2024, I wrote and launched flagship products for Quorum Analytics—the industry leading public affairs platform—helping drive growth from $9M to $64M+ ARR, scale the development team from 12 to 120+, and grow the company from a small bootstrapped startup to serving trade associations, advocacy groups, embassies, nonprofits, congressional offices, government agencies, over 50% of the Fortune 100, much of the Fortune 500, and 2,000+ clients globally.

As a player/coach technical lead, I mentored and served as a resource to engineers, managers, engineering directors, and the CTO, consistently solving the team's most complex engineering challenges and establishing Quorum as the best-in-class B2B SaaS software platform in the civic tech industry.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Coſi lanima noſtra incótinente che nel nuouo et mai nó fa ciò cāmino diqſta uita entra (Florence, Bonaccorsi) [C]osì l’anima nostra, incontanente che nel nuovo e mai non fatto cammino di questa vita entra (Florence, Edizione Nazionale) [S]o our soul, as soon as it enters upon this new and never travelled road of life (Princeton, Lansing)
— Dante, Convivio: IV, xii, 14-18~1304-1307 AD
Published 1490

In Summer 2016, I designed and wrote an Android application for Local Evacuation Alert Verification (LEAV) and a JavaScript web module for LEAV's integration with HURREVAC-eXtended (HVX) during my research internship with the Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Systems group at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory on Hanscom AFB.

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