John, the founder and CEO of HuDDleFish, is a computer scientist, a youth ministry specialist, and an award-winning Christian novelist who lives with his wife Amy and two children in San Leandro, CA. John earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California - San Francisco before moving on to become the head of client-side development at a major scientific software company that developed software for the pharmaceutical industry.

John first came up with the idea for the HuDDleFish architecture while working at his home church in San Leandro. The staff at the church were completely overloaded. They wanted to do discipleship and raise up new leaders, but recruiting, training and managing volunteers was so time-consuming that they usually defaulted to doing everything themselves. John realized that if he could create easy-to-use software that helped recruit, train, and manage volunteers – and that also gave the volunteers the tools they needed to do their work – it would have a HUGE impact in the church. And thus HuDDleFish was born.