John Garbutt
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Nscale
Long Beach, California, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Garbutt is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with 11+ years building and guiding large-scale cloud and HPC infrastructure, currently at Nscale. A long-time OpenStack veteran since 2010, he served as Nova PTL for Liberty and Mitaka, was twice elected to the OpenStack Technical Committee, and remains a Nova core reviewer driving compute and driver design. He blends deep systems-level expertise (bare metal, RDMA, NUMA, SR-IOV, KVM) with platform work that converges OpenStack, Kubernetes and HPC for academic and industrial customers. Known for pragmatic leadership, he has led platform teams, stewarded complex release processes, and presented internationally on large open-source cloud projects. Based in Long Beach with a Cambridge MA in Computer Science, he pairs heavy technical depth with a knack for making demanding infrastructure more efficient and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MA Computer Science, MA Computer Science at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (36)
python9
ansible9
ssh9
css8
expressjs7
devops7
javascript7
automation7
materialize7
browserify6
jekyll6
angular6
react6
infrastructure-as-code6
wavesurfer-js6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
avocadojesus/hackaholics
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 113 commits, 31 PRs in 3 months
rvohealth/dream
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
dream orm
Contributions:25 reviews, 50 PRs, 65 pushes in 22 days
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