John Cruikshank
Vice President Of Engineering at Zywave
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Cruikshank is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native .NET platforms, now serving as Vice President of Engineering at Zywave in Milwaukee. He blends deep technical expertise in C#, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, JavaScript and Vue.js with operational experience in Kubernetes, Docker and DevSecOps to drive reliable CI/CD-driven delivery. Having progressed through architect and director roles at Zywave, he’s proven at translating complex product needs into scalable architectures and engineering organizations. Comfortable leading both code and teams, he emphasizes secure, automated deployment practices that reduce risk and speed time to value. His career began in financial systems at Metavante/FIS, giving him a practical appreciation for compliance and robustness that still informs his platform decisions.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelors of Science, Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (106)
web-application10
aurelia10
octopus-deploy10
javascript9
dotnet9
codegen9
nswag9
angular9
cms9
command-line-interface9
swagger9
code-generation9
openapi9
docker9
webapi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cruikshj/server-manager-discord-bot
Apr 2024 - Jan 2026
A Discord bot for managing dedicated game servers.
Contributions:15 releases, 27 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 year 9 months
discord-bot
shaftware/NetMagic
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:8 releases, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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