John Corrales
Senior Manager, Engineering at Helix
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Corrales is a Senior Manager of Engineering in Mountain View with nine years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native platforms for fintech and biotech. He combines deep AWS and DevOps expertise with practical engineering leadership—rising through hands-on roles at 23andMe and Helix where he drove multi-account AWS architectures, CI/CD, and self-service infrastructure. Proficient in Python, TypeScript and Go, he contributes to open-source tooling like moto, where he implemented CloudFormation StackSet behaviors to improve testing of AWS APIs. Known for automating tedious work (his GitHub motto: "If you can automate your job away, you should!"), he blends developer productivity, security-conscious design, and reproducible operations. His BBA in Information Systems underpins a pragmatic approach to delivering auditable, scalable systems that reduce operational risk.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Walla Walla UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Information Systems at Pacific Union College
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Github Skills (13)
aws-cloudformation10
boto10
aws10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
aws-s36
ec6
amazon-ec26
amazon-s36
s3-bucket6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getmoto/moto
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `moto` library, which mocks AWS infrastructure for testing. Their work focused on adding and modifying functionality for CloudFormation, specifically related to StackSets. This included implementing new API responses, adding support for operations like `CreateStackSet`, `DeleteStackInstances`, and `StopStackSetOperation`, and integrating them with the backend models. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of AWS CloudFormation and the inner workings of the `moto` library.
ec2bototestinginfrastructureaws-infrastructure
corrjo/moto
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Moto is a library that allows your python tests to easily mock out the boto library
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 61 pushes in 1 year 4 months
pythonmotobototestingmocking
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