Josh Knarr
Principal Solutions Architect at BoxBoat Technologies (acquired by IBM)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Knarr is a Principal Solutions Architect specializing in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation, with nine years of hands-on experience building scalable, secure systems. He currently leads the security practice as Principal Solutions Architect at BoxBoat Technologies (acquired by IBM), steering enterprise-grade architecture and security across cloud and on-prem deployments. His LexisNexis Risk Solutions tenure saw him own Kubernetes architecture (Rancher, KOPS), migrate legacy workloads to containers and clouds, and even design a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on-prem with Portworx, CEPHs, and metallb. Earlier roles at Yodlee, Maven Wave, and telecom/retail clients broadened his expertise in AWS, OpenStack, CI/CD, and complex container ecosystems, including Puppet-driven automation and cloud migrations. Based in Philadelphia, PA, he thrives on turning complex requirements into automated, auditable solutions and enjoys discussing Kubernetes, the cloud, IoT, and automation.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Engineering, Associate's degree, Computer Engineering at Pennsylvania Institute of TechnologyComputer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Drexel University
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Github Skills (200)
container-management10
k8s10
scanner10
hashicorp10
cattle10
terragrunt10
hcl10
terraform-provider10
container-image10
controller10
rancher10
terraform10
kubernetes10
graph10
infrastructure-as-code10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
boxboat/grypeadmissioncontroller
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository hosts the admission controller build on top of grype.
Contributions:43 releases, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 11 months
admission-controllercontrolleradmission-webhookhostskubernetes
tibers/terraform-aws-openshift
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Automated cloud reference architecture library based on proven design patterns using Terraform
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
cloudreference-architecturehclpatternsinfrastructure-as-code
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