John Doak
Manager AKS Runtime Engineering (Kubernetes) at Microsoft
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Doak is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building automation and cloud-native infrastructure, currently managing AKS Runtime Engineering and shaping the Kubernetes data plane at Microsoft. He blends hands-on principal engineering in Go with people-facing management, having led cross-functional teams that deliver scalable fleet automation, change management SRE tooling, and critical operational integrations. Previously a Staff SRE and network automation lead at Google, he has deep expertise in large-scale workflow automation, device-agnostic control systems, and 24x7 globally available services. Based in Los Gatos, he is driven by a philosophy of enabling teams to scale through software rather than headcount, and is known for creating training programs and partnership models that upskill other engineering teams. An early-career network engineer at Lucasfilm, he pairs practical operational instincts with modern cloud-native design, often preferring to solve hard problems in Go.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Github Skills (62)
middleware10
sstable10
signal10
redux10
file-watcher10
data-storage10
lru10
state-machine10
golang10
queue10
protocol-buffers9
storage9
devops-services9
go9
protobuf9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gostdlib/base
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Base libraries that are generally useful
Contributions:26 PRs, 44 pushes, 45 branches in 3 years 1 month
johnsiilver/boutique
May 2017 - Jan 2020
Immutable data storage
Contributions:2 releases, 99 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 7 months
databasedata-storagestorageimmutablesubscriptions
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