John Curran
Software Engineer at Planet
Universal City, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Curran is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native services and infrastructure, currently developing Go and Python systems at Planet. He has deep operational experience across AWS, GCP and Kubernetes, shaped by prior roles in remote backend development and DevOps at Showroom Logic and Rackspace. Early work spans Java, .NET, C++ and SQL, including POS backends, research-grade C++ algorithms, and enterprise integrations—evidence of a pragmatic polyglot who moves between systems and services. Comfortable in both hands-on engineering and operational environments, he has delivered scalable production systems, automation, and deployment tooling. Based in Universal City, Texas, he combines a strong backend and infrastructure focus with an appreciation for reliable, observable systems. Notably, his career shows a steady progression from low-level algorithm work to cloud-scale service engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (50)
planet10
python9
twilio-api9
twilio9
python-client9
jenkins-plugin9
infrastructure9
remote-execution8
zeromq8
docker8
jenkins8
api8
scale8
iot8
configuration-management8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
john5223/minas
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
john5223/timescale_benchmark
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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