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 (19)
pytorch10
fisheye10
xtrabackup9
text2image9
puppet9
atlassian9
stable-diffusion9
ai9
image-generation9
deep-learning9
react9
gradio9
stash8
percona8
mysql5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
johnlawerance/johnlawerance.github.io
Mar 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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
mysqlpuppetperconamariadb-serverpuppet-module
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