John Drago
Senior Software Architect at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
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SeniorJohn Drago is a Senior Software Architect and engineering leader with over 25 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and launching platforms used by millions. He blends hands-on architecture and DevOps expertise with people leadership, having led teams at Cisco Meraki, Cruise, Apple-adjacent projects, and multiple startups to turn ambiguous problems into high-value products. His strengths include distributed systems, event-driven architectures, containerization, and AWS automation—skills he applied to radically improve performance, onboarding, and cost efficiency across health, fintech, and robotics domains. Known for mentoring engineers and raising delivery standards, he repeatedly moves organizations from monoliths to microservices and from fragile deployments to CI/CD-driven reliability. Currently architecting at a stealth startup while consulting on DevOps and cloud projects, he pairs strategic vision with the practical habit of shipping robust, test-covered systems. An early self-taught builder and occasional "hackologist," he brings both entrepreneurial grit and a discipline for engineering excellence that scales.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (200)
in-memory-database10
bigtable10
faunadb10
declarative10
brute-force-attacks10
javascript10
client-library10
nosql10
data-model10
web-hacking10
bitmaps10
netsuite10
database10
fst10
in-memory10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
distribot/distribot
Nov 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:46 PRs, 228 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year
stream-processingstreamrubystream-processing-engine
jdrago999/aws-cli-on-CoreOS
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 2 months
aws-clicoreosdockerawscli-tools
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