John Hamilton
Principal Software Engineer at Zscaler
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hamilton is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-native and on-prem systems, currently ensuring technical integrity across multiple teams at Zscaler. He has led large migrations to SaaS on AWS, authored design documents, mentored engineers, and implemented production components in Python, Go, and Terraform. His background includes building scalable time-series and metadata platforms using Go microservices, Kubernetes, BigTable, and Dataflow, and a long track record of R&D and customer-facing roles dating back to early-career systems engineering. Comfortable shifting between hands-on implementation and high-level architectural strategy, he’s known for translating complex requirements into practical, maintainable systems and for coordinating cross-team technical vision.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (31)
docker10
uniform10
scale10
zenoss10
kubernetes9
paas9
cgo8
godoc8
extjs8
control-center8
golang7
dependency-manager6
migration5
docker-image4
development-environment4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zenoss/ZenPacks.zenoss.DeviceSearch
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 13 days
zenoss
zenoss/zenkit-build
Nov 2017 - Mar 2020
Build image for zenkit microservices
Contributions:1 release, 8 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 4 months
image-builddockermicroservicemicroservices
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