John Bland
Founder at Katapult Media, Inc.
Pearland, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Bland is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, resilient architectures, and DevOps platforms across startups and enterprise environments. He has led transformative migrations—from monoliths to microservices and manual ops to infrastructure-as-code—while scaling teams and aligning technology with business goals. As founder of Katapult Media and former CTO/Head of SRE roles, he pairs hands-on systems design with executive-level strategy and a track record of enabling CI/CD-driven delivery. Based in Pearland, Texas, he combines deep cloud and SRE expertise with product-minded leadership and a long history of founding and advising technical ventures. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent focus on mentorship and culture-building, helping organizations sustain velocity without sacrificing stability.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at DeVry UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Texas Lutheran University
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Github Skills (200)
terraform-state10
amazon-cognito10
automation10
component-library10
k8s10
catalog10
amazon-sqs10
locking10
recording10
camera10
pouchdb10
dynamodb10
imports10
cloud-services10
inheritance10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
johncblandii/log4js-sumologic-appender
Jul 2018 - May 2019
A simple log4js appender for SumoLogic.
Contributions:4 releases, 16 PRs, 30 pushes in 10 months
sumologicloggerlogginglog4jsnodejs
johncblandii/hash_serializer
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
A serializer and helpers for Postgres JSON columns.
Contributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
hashidsjsonbhelperscolumnspostgres
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