John Favorite
Engineering Manager at Caylent
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Favorite is an Engineering Manager and Principal DevOps architect with over two decades of experience modernizing legacy systems into secure, cost-efficient cloud architectures for enterprise and government clients. He founded and led DevOps practice firms, driving containerization, GitOps, IaC, and CI/CD transformations that cut cloud costs and accelerated delivery while enabling SOC 2–level controls and multi-tenant high-availability. At companies from ActionIQ to Forcepoint he built self-service pipelines, multi-account AWS governance, and observability stacks that materially reduced MTTR and operational overhead. Known for mentoring teams and embedding DevOps culture, he pairs hands-on engineering with strategic leadership and a habit of “doing things twice—once to learn, then to automate,” which fuels repeatable, automated operations. Based in the DC–Baltimore area, he brings a rare blend of federal-grade security experience from his Navy and contractor work together with startup agility and cost-conscious cloud engineering.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Maryland Global CampusBachelors of Science degree Business Information Systems, Bachelors of Science degree Business Information Systems at University of Phoenix Online
Github Skills (65)
headphones9
vagrant8
golang8
ansible-galaxy8
docker8
aws8
terraform7
packer7
vagrantfile7
ansible-role7
pfsense7
ansible7
virtualbox7
vcenter7
vms6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OldCrowEW/dcos-ansible
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:67 commits, 21 PRs, 43 pushes in 5 months
ansibleansible-playbookplaybook
OldCrowEW/rancheros-openstack
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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