John Blesener
Infrastructure Architect at Gensler
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Blesener is an Infrastructure Architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating resilient on-prem and cloud-native systems from Tokyo's Chiyoda. At Gensler he progressed from IT technician to architect, leading Kubernetes rollouts, data pipeline builds with Ansible/ELK/Kafka, and migrations from legacy monitoring to modern observability stacks. He blends server administration, CI/CD, and user-centered design to translate building information and operational logs into actionable metrics that inform business decisions. Known for mentoring regional IT teams and introducing automation (Powershell, SCCM to zero-touch imaging), he pairs pragmatic tooling choices with strategic infrastructure upgrades like VMware VSAN. Comfortable converting legacy Java/Node microservices for container platforms, he focuses on making organizations more data-driven while keeping operational complexity manageable.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Southern Polytechnic State UniversityProject Management, Project Management at Temple University Japan
English, Japanese
Github Skills (40)
monitoring10
json10
mqtt10
telegraf10
kafka10
time-series10
charmed-kubernetes10
agent10
golang10
xpath10
influxdb10
modbus10
system-information10
grafana9
psutil9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jblesener/juju_snmpd
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
jblesener/telegraf
Apr 2021 - Dec 2021
The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
reporteragentreportingpmmcollecting
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