Summary
John Harvey is a pragmatic technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building, automating, and operating complex build and release systems across embedded and web platforms. He has led and grown Build/Release, Ops, and Compliance teams at organizations from Motorola and Comcast to Crunchy Data and Snowflake, driving large-scale migrations to git and creating thousands of automated build jobs that produce RPMs, containers, installers and more. Equally comfortable in management and the command line, he still dives into compile/link troubleshooting while focusing on repeatability, documentation, and team effectiveness. He played a key role in obtaining Common Criteria certifications for PostgreSQL and routinely runs git training for new hires, reflecting a mix of compliance rigor and developer enablement. Based in Charleston, SC, he brings deep expertise in CI/CD tooling, configuration management, and pragmatic automation that consistently reduces cycle time and operational friction.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish, Russian