John Aitchison
Engineering Manager & Senior DevOps Engineer at Element 84
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Aitchison is an engineering manager and senior DevOps engineer with 15+ years of software and systems experience, currently leading geospatial data and infrastructure work at Element 84 after a decade driving cloud migrations and data platforms at LanguageConvo. He blends hands-on implementation (Terraform, AWS, container services, dbt, BigQuery) with people leadership—managing distributed teams, improving developer productivity, and owning tech decisions that reduced costs and latency across stacks. Notable wins include an end-to-end migration to TypeScript/GraphQL, building a near-real-time analytics pipeline via Datastream and BigQuery, and shrinking operational costs through consolidated observability and infra automation. With an aerospace engineering background and a habit of seeking remote rivers and peaks, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with a practical focus on resilience, security, and making work enjoyable for his teammates.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor of Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (200)
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javascript-framework10
automation10
duckdb10
jscodeshift10
graphql-api10
firefox10
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trigger10
html10
html5-video10
vagrant10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
languageconvo/datahub-deployed
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
A way for small teams to deploy DataHub to the cloud
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
gcpclouddatahubazureaws
languageconvo/mkt
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
For our marketing site
Contributions:2 releases, 9 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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