John Gilmore
Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Somerset West, South Africa
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Top SchoolJohn Gilmore is a Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available support platforms. He leads three distributed teams across Cape Town, Seattle and Vancouver managing the AWS Support Case Management platform that enables global engineer–customer communication at scale. With a PhD in electronic engineering focused on large-scale distributed networks and a BEng cum laude, he blends deep research-backed systems knowledge with hands-on cloud-native expertise across Lambda, ECS/Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, Kinesis, and more. John is responsible for product vision, team structure, and operational excellence, having driven cross-timezone initiatives to ensure customers can always create cases and engineers can always respond. Based in Somerset West, South Africa, he combines technical leadership with a keen focus on reliability and developer productivity—an unusual mix of academic depth and pragmatic, production-first delivery.
12 years of coding experience
PhD, Electronic engineering (large scale distributed computer networks), PhD, Electronic engineering (large scale distributed computer networks) at Stellenbosch University
English, German, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
2,785reputation
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12answers
5questions
protocol-buffers
top-1%
homebrew
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Github Skills (21)
protocol-buffers10
storm9
homebrew9
hadoop-streaming6
go6
trident6
communications6
big-data6
python6
java6
json6
apache-storm6
golang5
infiniband3
linux3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jsgilmore/gostorm
Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 5 months
golangcommunicatego-librarycommunicationsshells
jsgilmore/ib
Aug 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 9 months
golanglinuxinfinibandmachines
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