John Conlon
PRESIDENT at Verticon, Inc.
Fennimore, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Conlon is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and president of Verticon, Inc., with 19+ years building data engineering, IoT, and integration solutions that span cloud-native, on-premise, and serverless architectures. He combines deep systems and network management roots from roles at 3Com, Bay Networks, and GE with hands-on expertise in modern stacks—Kubernetes, Kafka, Apache Beam/DataFlow, S3 datalakes, and model-driven engineering—to deliver inventory, asset tracking, and testing-data pipelines. A full-stack practitioner, he codes in Java, Python, TypeScript and contributes to OSGi/SLF4J testing and integration work, reflecting a focus on reliable backend integrations in complex modular environments. His background in network management and WAN architectures informs pragmatic, scalable designs for distributed mobile workforces, RFID/sensor networks, and hybrid object-store systems. Notably, he has blended R&D in software-defined networking and global system integration with commercial productization, making him as comfortable inventing protocols and architectures as shipping production BI and IoT solutions. Based in Fennimore, WI, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with decades of consulting experience across agriculture, healthcare, and environmental sensor domains.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
javas10
osgi10
slf4j10
java10
testing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
qos-ch/slf4j
Jan 2007 - Feb 2007
Simple Logging Facade for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the OSGi test bundle, adding features and implementing the OSGi probe service. They developed and tested the Commons Logging API and created a LogService implementation. Their work involved setting up integration tests with Spring-OSGi and adapting tests for different binding bundles, indicating a focus on ensuring the SLF4J library functions correctly within an OSGi environment.
loggerloggingfacadeslf4jlogging-facade
jconlon/LBWhite-heater-estimator
Jul 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 5 months
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