John Flores
Software Development Engineer at Capital Group
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Flores is a seasoned Software Development Engineer based in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building web and cloud-native applications using Java/Spring, Golang, and modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue. He has delivered production systems across finance, federal, and academic domains—contributing to the FedRAMP Dashboard and building investment-group software at Capital Group—while also teaching AngularJS content for Johns Hopkins on Coursera. Strong in backend engineering and infrastructure testing, he has contributed to Terratest to improve packer testing workflows, and repeatedly emphasizes a deep interest in Go. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL) and non-relational stores (Solr, experimenting with Redis/Mongo), he also brings geospatial experience with the ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript API. A pragmatic polyglot who enjoys learning new tech, John blends hands-on coding with an eye for automation and testability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (20)
testing10
terraform10
terraformer10
testing-library10
packer10
go10
react-router10
react10
aws9
eclipse6
thymeleaf6
angularjs6
jquery6
spring6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
May 2019 - May 2019
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:John's contributions center around improving the testing infrastructure and expanding the testing capabilities within the Terratest library for infrastructure code. They focused on enhancing the testing framework by introducing features such as `VarFiles` to the packer testing options. Further, the user added a new test case to utilize the `VarFiles` feature within a basic packer example. These additions streamline testing workflows and increase the flexibility in testing infrastructure.
golangdevopstestinggo-libraryinfrastructure
floresj/platformatic
May 2023 - Oct 2023
Platformatic Open Source monorepo!
Contributions:27 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
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