John Harris
Principal Product Manager at Kong Inc.
Mukilteo, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Harris is a Principal Product Manager and cloud-native engineer with 11 years of experience bringing DevOps, continuous delivery, and Kubernetes solutions to teams ranging from Fortune 50 enterprises to early-stage startups. Based at Mukilteo, WA, he combines hands-on engineering—contributions to projects like Docker docs, FluxCD/Flagger (Kuma integration), and VMware Tanzu dev portal—with product leadership at Kong, translating technical depth into strategic product outcomes. He’s equally at home architecting service mesh routing and metrics as he is improving developer UX and CI/CD pipelines, and he’s the kind of engineer-educator who mentors teams while shipping production-grade systems. Outside of work he experiments as an aspiring indie game developer, revealing a creative side that informs pragmatic, user-focused product decisions.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/tanzu-dev-portal
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
Content for Tanzu dev portal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 12 commits, 13 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the development of the Tanzu dev portal by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They made changes to the UI with the use of HTML and CSS. The user also worked on modifying layout templates and adding conditional API calls for local development. Additionally, the user was responsible for adding support for tabbed content and enhancing filtering functionality.
cmsdevdev-portalsap-hanatanzu
fluxcd/flagger
Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
Progressive delivery Kubernetes operator (Canary, A/B Testing and Blue/Green deployments)
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:John contributed to the Kuma integration within the Flagger project, as evidenced by the addition of Kuma-specific API types and client code. Their work included modifications to the clientset to incorporate Kuma, demonstrating an understanding of how to extend Flagger's capabilities. Furthermore, they integrated Kuma routing and metrics, enhancing the project's ability to manage traffic and monitor performance within a Kuma service mesh. The user also implemented tests, validating the Kuma integration and ensuring the correct functionality.
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