John

Current Role

Senior Software Engineer at Fortune 500 Automotive Company (2023-Present)
- Leading cloud infrastructure optimization initiatives with significant monthly cost savings through AWS/GCP resource optimization
- Continuously delivering infrastructure improvements and enhancements to platform reliability
- Architected VPC endpoint solutions and network security policies across multi-region environments
- Optimized ArgoCD deployments and Kubernetes resource management for production workloads

9+ years cloud engineering experience across Fortune 500 companies
Led service migrations and disaster recovery infrastructure design
Achieved substantial annual cost reductions through strategic 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

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

a3s - Terminal UI for AWS IAM management inspired by k9s
- Built with Go, Bubble Tea, and AWS SDK v2 for responsive terminal interactions
- Features vim-like navigation, real-time search, and async loading for instant responsiveness
- MVP focuses on IAM roles with plans to expand to EC2, Lambda, and S3 management
- Read the blog post →