Web App Developer joins Cayuse

We're thrilled to announce that Sydney John has joined our Cayuse Native Solutions team as our Web App Developer. This addition to our staff boosts our internal capacity for programming of mobile apps, websites, online portals, and custom computer programming.

Sydney is an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and earned a computer science degree from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

He grew up outside of the Yakama Reservation in Washington state where he attended Zillah High School, graduating in the spring of 2020.  

He first started coding during the pandemic lockdown in 2020 to pass the time. Eventually his hobby would turn into a passion for him, and he decided to attend Colorado School of Mines in the Fall of 2020, majoring in Computer Science. During his time at Colorado School of Mines, Sydney joined the Association for Computing Machinery, Linux Users Club, AISES, the Tau Beta Pi honors society, and was a teaching assistant for Physics II for two semesters. He graduated Colorado School of Mines with a bachelor’s degree in computer science in the Fall of 2023.  

After graduation Sydney took a job with a software company whose focus is updating or creating new software for the government. For the job, he was moved to Des Moines, Iowa to work on the Iowa tax modernization project. He was a part of the audit and equalization teams and would interview Iowa tax officials and turn their responses into technical specifications for software development. He left the company in March of 2024 and moved back to Colorado where he currently resides. 

Before taking his first software development job, Sydney had several other jobs that taught him customer service and hard work. In high school he worked as a crew trainer for McDonald’s, during the pandemic he worked as a medical support assistant at Yakama Indian Health Services, and one summer he took a job as a construction worker. Now he is excited to give back to his and other native communities by working for Cayuse Native Solutions.