John Franklin
DevOps Engineer at Sentai Digital, LLC
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Franklin is a DevOps and DevSecOps engineer with over three decades of systems and security experience and 13 years in hands-on roles delivering cloud-native infrastructure and compliant web platforms. He combines deep AWS and Terraform/IaC expertise with practical SELinux hardening and NIST/FedRAMP ATO leadership, having shepherded federal agency authorizations and large Drupal deployments. As founder of Sentai Digital and maintainer of Silkscreen CMS, he blends entrepreneurial product work with sustained open-source contributions—most recently contributing core fixes to the Backdrop CMS. He’s a seasoned CI/CD and identity integrator who has implemented OIDC/SAML logins like Login.gov and automated security testing pipelines for government workloads. Based in Blacksburg, VA and holding an active clearance, he’s equally comfortable writing SELinux RPMs and speaking at conferences, bringing rare depth across ops, security, and web development.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Virginia TechTJHSS&T
French
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Github Skills (20)
backdrop10
cms10
php10
testing9
objective-c9
cocoa9
nsdata9
databases9
iphone9
trim9
database9
nsstring9
whitespace9
cocoa-touch6
coredata6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
backdrop/backdrop
May 2016 - Jan 2022
Backdrop core code repository.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 37 commits, 47 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Backdrop CMS. Their work involved refactoring and updating deprecated functions, integrating and improving test setup, and fixing form-related issues. They also made changes related to database interactions, including updating database queries for better compatibility and making improvements to the configuration directories and settings.
cmsbackdropphpcode-repository
sd-backdrop/silkscreen
Jan 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 9 months
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