John Alcorn
Director, Principal Client Architect at Kyndryl
Stearns, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Alcorn is a seasoned cloud and application modernization leader with three decades of experience spanning IBM and Kyndryl, currently serving as Director and Principal Client Architect. He specializes in migrating and replatforming mission-critical Java and microservice applications to containerized, Kubernetes-based environments, often delivering end-to-end devSecOps solutions from POC to production. A longtime WebSphere expert turned hybrid-cloud practitioner, he combines deep product engineering roots (OS/2, WebSphere internals, EJB) with hands-on modern tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, MicroProfile and Istio. He leads teams, mentors practitioners, and builds factory models that scale modernization across hundreds of apps while keeping performance, security, and developer experience front and center. Owner of the IBM/Kyndryl Stock Trader sample Kube application, he also quietly contributes practical reference implementations to help teams learn by example. Based in Stearns, Kentucky, he brings a pragmatic blend of product, consulting, and architecture experience to complex enterprise transformations.
8 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (83)
stock-quotes10
operator10
umbrella10
helm10
stock-data10
stock10
microprofile10
java10
application-server10
notification9
db29
microservices9
websphere9
jdbc9
server9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
IBMStockTrader/stock-quote
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Microservice to retrieve stock quotes
Contributions:203 commits, 10 PRs, 152 pushes in 5 years 6 months
quotesstock-quotesnodejsstockmicroservices
IBMStockTrader/portfolio
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Microservice implemented with MicroProfile that persists stock portfolios to JDBC (such as DB2)
Contributions:433 commits, 23 PRs, 369 pushes in 5 years 6 months
db2microprofileportfoliosstockjava
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