Curtis John
Site Reliability Engineer II at Akamai Technologies
Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis John is a Site Reliability Engineer II with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale production environments, currently focused on reliability at Akamai Technologies. A Red Hat Certified System Administrator, he has deep expertise in monitoring and observability—designing Kubernetes clusters, migrating monolithic monitoring to microservice-native solutions, and implementing Prometheus and Drone CI/CD pipelines. His background spans DevSecOps and consulting roles supporting DoD and commercial clients, where he emphasizes rapid incident resolution and automation with tools like Ansible and custom monitoring plugins. Passionate about open source, he contributes where possible and thrives on adopting new technologies and tackling complex distributed systems challenges. An often-overlooked strength is his mix of vendor-facing procurement experience and hands-on engineering, giving him a pragmatic edge in balancing cost, compliance, and operability.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (151)
rtsp10
standalone-server10
realtime10
nix10
coredns10
gcp10
dns10
k8s10
dns-record10
kubernetes-cluster10
nixos10
linux10
camera10
fluxcd10
helm10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
crutonjohn/nixpkgs
Oct 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:23 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
nixosnix-packages
crutonjohn/dotfiles
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 38 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
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