John Bolliger
Principal Ruby And Platform Engineer
Provo, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Bolliger is a Principal Ruby and Platform Engineer with 11+ years building maintainable, large-scale distributed backend systems and currently driving platform reliability at MX. He specializes in refactoring and scaling complex Rails codebases, extracting performance-critical paths into Go, and improving database throughput, messaging idempotency, and schema consistency across sharded environments. John has led cloud migrations from VMs to Kubernetes, optimized latency for hot paths by multiples, and mentors teams on database performance and observability. A hands-on founder and former CEO, he also contributes to open-source tooling—improving a serverless headless Chrome build for AWS Lambda—showing a pragmatic mix of DevOps and engineering depth.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Engineering at McNeil High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English
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Github Skills (23)
scripting10
aws-lambda10
chromium10
bash10
script10
aws10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
git9
dockers9
docker9
redirect9
serverless9
nginx9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
adieuadieu/serverless-chrome
Oct 2019 - Sep 2020
🌐 Run headless Chrome/Chromium on AWS Lambda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:John focused on improving the build process for headless Chrome on AWS Lambda. They made changes to the build script (`build.sh`) to install dependencies, updated the AMI version, and cleaned up the build process. They also implemented a git shallow clone for faster Chromium source code fetching. The user's work streamlined the build process and potentially optimized the deployment of the headless Chrome environment.
headless-chromiumaws-lambdaserverlesschromiumchrome-devtools-protocol
mxenabled/protobuf-nats
Jan 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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