Summary
John Garcia is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Berkeley with 10 years of hands-on experience operating and automating distributed systems across startups and large tech firms. He has built reliability and DevOps capabilities at companies including Apple, OpsMx, and Syapse, and now focuses on SRE practice at GMI Cloud. Comfortable bridging system administration, architecture, and developer-facing tooling, he combines pragmatic automation with a strong interest in observability and scalable operations. His background spans technical support and developer advocacy roles, which helps him communicate complex infrastructure trade-offs to engineering teams and stakeholders. Known for preferring operational simplicity, he often favors durable, well-instrumented solutions over brittle complexity.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Grace M Davis
Psychology, Psychology at Ball State University
English