John Karabudak
Senior Software Developer at WSP in Canada
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Karabudak is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience building and securing cloud infrastructure, currently driving reliability and automation at WSP in Canada. A Linux enthusiast and security aficionado, he specializes in infrastructure hardening, workflow automation, and system stability while also contributing backend improvements to notable open-source AI tooling like open-webui (adding Stable Diffusion 3 and federated auth refinements). He blends production-grade engineering with hands-on DIY sysadmin skills—running a homelab, self-hosted AI experiments, and custom iptables setups—so he understands both enterprise constraints and edge-case tooling. Based in St. John’s, NL, he pairs a Memorial University computer science background with a pragmatic, security-first approach to shipping resilient systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Github Skills (16)
configuration-management10
ollama10
image-generation10
environment-variables10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
ai10
llm10
openai-api9
fastapi9
api8
websocket8
apidoc8
docker6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
open-webui/open-webui
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 8 PRs, 31 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:John contributed significantly to the back-end functionality of the project, focusing on image generation capabilities using ComfyUI. They added support for Stable Diffusion 3, including environment variables for configuration, and integrated Flux model support. Furthermore, the user implemented federated authentication improvements by enabling the setting of a user's name through a trusted header. Additionally, they addressed performance issues by putting a blocking loop in a separate thread.
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JohnTheNerd/website
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
My personal website, complete with some really ugly CI/CD.
Contributions:26 PRs, 86 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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