John Clark
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Clark is a Senior Software Engineer in Platform Engineering at Skyscanner with around four years focused on DataOps and platform reliability, specialising in Terraform, Kubernetes, and orchestration of data management platforms. He transitioned into cloud-native engineering after an earlier career designing mechanical and electrical systems for the oil and gas sector, bringing a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to infrastructure problems. At Skyscanner he progressed from Distributed Systems work to senior platform responsibilities, delivering scalable, automated platform tooling for data teams. Known for bridging hardware-rooted engineering rigor with software platform practices, he excels at turning complex infra requirements into maintainable IaC and Kubernetes patterns. Based in Edinburgh, he combines consultancy experience with product-scale platform engineering, often thinking about the “in-between” integrations that make data platforms reliable in production.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Robert Gordon University
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Github Skills (49)
argoproj10
service-mesh10
api-management10
kubernetes10
circuit-breaker10
charts10
nomad10
security10
fault-injection10
consul10
prometheus10
helm10
proxies10
observe10
resiliency10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
clarkjohnd/terraform-helm-updater-test
Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 16 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 4 months
clarkjohnd/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:26 pushes, 8 branches in 19 days
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingcollectoropentelemetry
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