John Clark
Senior Director, Runtime Engineering at Grubhub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Clark is a Senior Director of Runtime Engineering with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling highly-trafficked web platforms, currently leading runtime and SRE efforts at Grubhub. He combines deep systems and DevOps expertise—spanning AWS, Docker, Puppet/Ansible, MySQL/Cassandra, and observability tooling—with clear business-minded communication that helps cross-functional teams deliver reliable, fault-tolerant services. A proven architect of microservice platforms and delivery pipelines, he has moved up through SRE leadership at Grubhub while remaining pragmatic and operationally involved. He’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers, owning SRE backlogs, and driving infrastructure refactors that improve uptime and developer productivity. Based in Chicago, John brings a rare blend of systems administration roots and strategic leadership that keeps feature velocity aligned with operational resilience.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
xtrabackup9
pytorch9
puppet9
atlassian9
stable-diffusion9
fisheye9
ai9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
gradio9
text2image8
atlassian-crucible8
percona8
mysql6
mariadb6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
johnlawerance/crucible
Feb 2016 - Jan 2019
Puppet module to install, configure, and manage Atlassian Crucible / Fisheye
Contributions:8 releases, 55 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 11 months
atlassian-cruciblefisheyepuppet
johnlawerance/xtrabackup
Feb 2016 - Jan 2019
Puppet module to install, configure, and run backups using Percona Xtrabackup for mysql, percona-server, mariadb
Contributions:5 releases, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 10 months
mariadbmysqlperconapuppetxtrabackup
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