John Culkin
Founder at (New Startup Loading)
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Culkin is a founder and seasoned cloud solutions architect with 11 years of enterprise IT experience, recently transitioning from a senior solutions architect role at AWS to launching a new startup. He combines hands-on infrastructure expertise—spanning cloud strategy, governance, migrations, and database/virtualization operations—with executive advisory experience helping organizations adopt public cloud at scale. His background includes leading cloud architecture teams at Cloudreach and managing large virtualization environments at the University of Scranton, where he administered clusters of vSphere hosts and hundreds of VMs. John holds a BA and an MBA in Management Information Systems, pairing academic grounding with practical change leadership. Known for a curious, problem-solving approach, he blends technical depth with strategic thinking and a knack for translating complex IT challenges into actionable roadmaps. Opinions are his own, reflecting an independent, thoughtful perspective shaped by both consultancy and practitioner roles.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Management Information Systems (MIS), MBA Management Information Systems (MIS) at University of ScrantonBachelors Management Information Systems (MIS), Bachelors Management Information Systems (MIS) at University of Notre Dame
English
Github Skills (42)
route5310
rds10
machine-learning10
amazon-web-services10
aws-sdk10
dynamodb10
aws10
lambda10
elasticsearch10
serverless10
cloudwatch10
aws-cli10
aws-cloudformation8
sceptre8
terraform8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AWSCookbook/ArtificialIntelligence
Sep 2021 - Mar 2022
Chapter 8 of the AWS Cookbook
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
aws
johnculkin/UnofficialListOfPublicAWSRoadmaps
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Unofficial list of Public AWS Roadmaps. Roadmaps are a great way to get a peek at what is being planned, view/make comments, and keep up with recently delivered updates.
Contributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aws
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