Current Role
- Senior Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company (2023-Present)
- Leading cloud infrastructure optimization, saving $20K+ monthly through AWS/GCP resource optimization
- Delivered 80+ infrastructure improvements via pull requests in 6 months, enhancing platform reliability
- Architected VPC endpoint solutions and network security policies across multi-region environments
- Optimized ArgoCD deployments and Kubernetes resource management for production workloads
Key Achievements
- 9+ years cloud engineering experience across Fortune 500 companies
- Led service migrations and disaster recovery infrastructure design
- Reduced operational costs by $240K+ annually through infrastructure optimization
- Mentored teams through platform transitions (OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD)
- Implemented enterprise-grade security controls including network policies and VPC endpoints
- Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Atlantis across multiple environments
- Enhanced platform observability through Prometheus metrics integration and monitoring solutions
- Streamlined CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment time and increasing reliability
Technical Stack
Cloud: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
Infrastructure: Terraform, Helm, Atlantis
CI/CD: Tekton, Concourse, ArgoCD, Jenkins
Languages: Go, Python, Java, Shell/Bash
Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty
Projects
(Coming Soon)
- Showcase of infrastructure automation and cloud-native solutions
Latest Writings
- TIL you can use VPC endpoints instead of endless network policy updates - Today I learned that VPC endpoints can dramatically...
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Personal
- Enjoy reading in my spare time
Contact
- GitHub: github.com/johnoct