John Gleeson
Executive at Starfish Storage
Honor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Gleeson is a technology and business leader with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting, marketing, and scaling enterprise Platform-as-a-Service and decentralized cloud solutions. As Chief Business Development Officer at Storj (after serving as COO and multiple VP roles), he blends product expertise, go-to-market strategy, and customer success to grow international partnerships and adoption of privacy-first, distributed storage. He is known for translating complex technical capabilities into clear commercial value, bridging sales, engineering, and executive stakeholders. His background ranges from technical marketing for large PaaS deployments to directing operations and community growth for a blockchain-enabled storage platform, giving him a rare mix of legal training, product empathy, and operational rigor. Based in Honor, Michigan, he approaches technology with an entrepreneurial mindset and a focus on building tooling for the internet’s next chapter. An early career attorney turned technologist, he brings disciplined negotiation and compliance instincts to product and partner strategy.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA English, Psychology, BA English, Psychology at University of MichiganJD Law, JD Law at Wayne State University Law School
Github Skills (51)
drpc10
storage10
open-source10
distributed-systems10
object-storage10
proto10
rpc10
go10
cloud-object-storage10
golang10
microservices10
grpc10
gateway9
c-library9
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
storj/minio
Nov 2020 - Jun 2026
High Performance, Kubernetes Native Object Storage
Contributions:1 PR, 159 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 7 months
kubernetesobject-storage
storj/gateway-st
Feb 2020 - Jul 2026
Single-tenant, S3-compatible server to interact with the Storj network
Contributions:520 pushes, 1 branch, 10 tags in 6 years 5 months
tenantsingle-tenantstorj-networkstorjinteract
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