John Bauer
Chief Architect at Applied Research Solutions
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bauer is a Chief Architect with 11 years of post-military experience designing scalable, cloud-native systems for Department of Defense customers, currently leading architecture strategy and cloud services at Applied Research Solutions. He brings deep hands-on expertise in cluster and PaaS technologies—Apache Mesos, DC/OS, Docker, Kafka, and Elasticsearch—coupled with a strong background in systems engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology. Previously he architected enterprise microservice platforms and high-availability processing pipelines at Riverside Research and led J2EE/Eclipse RCP programs at General Dynamics for NGA and USAF. Known for translating operational requirements into governed, secure architectures, he blends technical leadership with program-level influence to align business and engineering goals. His career uniquely pairs DoD operational experience as a former USAF Captain with modern cloud practices, enabling pragmatic, mission-focused solutions. Based in Dayton, Ohio, he focuses on building resilient, horizontally scalable platforms that support multiple concurrent programs and rapid capability delivery.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Managment Information Science, MBA Managment Information Science at Wright State UniversityGraduate Certificate Systems Engineering, Graduate Certificate Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologyB.S. Physics Physics, B.S. Physics Physics at East Carolina University
Github Skills (94)
rest-api10
code-generator10
django10
api10
taiga10
kanban10
product-management10
jira10
redis10
project-management9
sdk9
rest9
golang9
postgresql9
python9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WTIGER001/sfcmap
Jun 2018 - Sep 2019
Simple mapping utility for roleplaying game applications
Contributions:15 commits, 151 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
mappingroleplayingleafletjsroleplaying-game
appliedres/cloudy
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 64 pushes in 2 years 10 months
awsazure
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