John Griepentrog
Senior DevOps Engineer at Northwestern Mutual
Sussex, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Griepentrog is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 9+ years blending hands-on infrastructure, software engineering, and team leadership to deliver reliable, secure application delivery at scale. Currently empowering Managed Investment teams at Northwestern Mutual, he specializes in removing operational toil through modern CI/CD, cloud governance, and platform automation. His background includes leading distributed teams, architecting cross-cloud solutions (AWS/Azure), and introducing DevOps practices like Git-based workflows, pipeline automation, and infrastructure-as-code. Known for coaching engineering cultures and running large-scale SAFe planning events, he pairs technical depth with people-first leadership. Based in Sussex, WI, he brings a pragmatic focus on business outcomes and continuous experimentation to turn complex requirements into dependable production systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lakeside Lutheran High SchoolBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.68, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.68 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (27)
rainbow10
documented9
step-functions9
aws-cloudformation8
sdk8
aws8
nodejs8
aws-sdk7
aws-sdk-js6
javascript6
lambda4
aws-lambda4
api4
python4
bionic4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zippadd/listObjectsV2-ep-mock-issue
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
https://github.com/dwyl/aws-sdk-mock/issues/118
Contributions:11 PRs, 41 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 7 months
mockaws-sdksdkaws
zippadd/aws-apig-responses
Oct 2018 - Aug 2021
A Error derived object factory designed to provide an easy map to AWS API Gateway error regex.
Contributions:12 releases, 38 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 10 months
api-gatewayapiaws-apiregexfactory
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