John Burt
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at FlightAware
Eyota, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burt is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with seven years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving reliability at FlightAware. He brings a background bridging industrial IT and support engineering, having moved from process and automation roles in manufacturing to scalable service reliability. Comfortable collaborating with developers, John focuses on transforming operational challenges into automated, observable solutions that reduce downtime and improve developer experience. His engineering education spans computer and mechanical emphases plus wind energy project studies, reflecting a practical, systems-oriented mindset. Based in Eyota, Minnesota, he combines field-tested troubleshooting with modern SRE practices, often surfacing improvements that stem from his industrial automation roots.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering, Emphasis in Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Engineering, Emphasis in Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Minnesota State University, MankatoWind Energy and Project Management, Wind Energy and Project Management at Hogeschool van Arnhem en NijmegenAssociate of Science (A.S.), Engineering, Associate of Science (A.S.), Engineering at Itasca Community College
English
Github Skills (200)
ebpf10
exporter10
k8s10
textfsm10
in-memory10
controller10
ingress-nginx10
kubernetes10
factor10
ingress-controller10
dedicated10
ingress10
cni10
networking10
memcached10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
cybertrol-engineering/idmz-helm
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Helm Chart for IDMZ Deployments
Contributions:2 PRs, 154 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
charthelmhelm-charthelm-chartskubernetes
alphabet5/ks
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
Utility to make kubeseal --raw a bit easier.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
kubectlkubernetesbitkubeseal
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