John Heemstra
Senior Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Fennville, Michigan, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Heemstra is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years in high-performance computing and a long track record at Cray/HPE building and triaging networking and deployment software for supercomputers. He blends deep hands-on skills in C, assembly, Linux kernel drivers, MPI, Python, and Ansible with DevOps and LEAN philosophies, often operating as a tech lead or hands-on manager. At HPE he has driven bare-metal Kubernetes deployments and currently triages Slingshot host software including Libfabric and the Cassini NIC driver. His background in psychology, physics, and mechanical/electrical engineering gives him a systems-thinking edge and strong emotional intelligence when leading small teams and reporting to senior executives. He has repeatedly modernized operational practices—e.g., overhauling triage processes and building automated install/test tooling—that enabled peak system performance at scale. Based in Fennville, Michigan, he prefers engineering-driven environments and excels at turning low-level networking and kernel work into reliable, deployable systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityEngineering, Engineering at Grand Rapids Community College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (88)
minecraft10
cray10
hpc-cluster10
fabric10
high-performance10
kubernetes10
climate-model9
hpc9
livecd9
cloud-init9
partitions8
golang8
squashfs8
vagrantfile8
bare8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
heemstra/node-images
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
OS Images for Vshasta, METAL, Google, and more.
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 day
metal
versity/ansible-role-versity-pcs
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 9 branches in 8 months
clusteransiblebitspcs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.