John Allspaw
Board Member-At-Large at Primary Venture Partners
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Allspaw is an engineering leader, researcher, and founder with over two decades of experience delivering resilient, scalable web and operations systems, currently leading Adaptive Capacity Labs and serving on the Resilience in Software Foundation board. He helped catalyze the DevOps movement—his influential 2009 Velocity talk and books like The Art of Capacity Planning and Web Operations shaped how teams think about deployments, capacity, and operational collaboration. John combines hands-on infrastructure leadership from senior roles at Etsy and Yahoo with academic training in human factors and systems safety, applying cognitive systems and resilience engineering to real-world software operations. He advises startups and VCs through Primary Venture Partners, translating complex socio-technical problems into practical organizational and technical changes. Less obvious: his early career in vehicle crashworthiness research gave him deep experience in experimental validation and high-performance computing environments that inform his methodical approach to system reliability.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Human Factors and Systems Safety, Master’s Degree Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund UniversityMS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at Tufts UniversityBS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (38)
etsy9
visualizations8
elasticsearch6
elastic6
delay6
firebase6
d3js6
vector-graphics6
debugging6
observability6
kibana6
httpd5
webserver5
machine-learning5
visualization4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adaptivecapacitylabs/Resilience-Engineering-Resources
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
This is a collection of readings, talks, and other bits regarding the field of Resilience Engineering
Contributions:11 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
bitsengineeringfieldresilienceresilience-engineering
snafucatchers/snafucatchers.github.io
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:38 commits in 2 months
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