John Kraus
Director - Vehicle Systems Engineering at Ford Motor Company
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kraus is a vehicle systems engineering executive with 11+ years in leadership roles and over two decades of hands-on engineering across automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor industries. Currently Director of Vehicle Systems Engineering at Ford, he previously led global systems engineering for Continental’s Connectivity product line, managing ~400 engineers and delivering measurable gains in reuse, efficiency, and budget performance. Technically grounded as a former fellow software engineer and embedded systems lead, he has driven platform-level reuse strategies, telematics and HPA implementations, and contributed to large program wins and security architectures in classified defense systems. A servant leader and change agent, he pairs people development—running leadership academies and talent programs—with a bias for measurable outcomes like fewer customer defects and faster software delivery. Notably, his career blends deep embedded/security expertise from Northrop Grumman with large-scale connectivity platform transformation at Continental, giving him rare cross-domain fluency in systems, software, and electrical engineering.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at National Technological UniversityBachelors Computer Engineering, Bachelors Computer Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Github Skills (34)
directed-graph8
nodejs7
json7
javascript7
python7
html7
visualization6
user-permissions6
force-directed-graph5
vscode5
authorization5
vscode-extension5
opencore5
access-control4
security4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johnfkraus/al-qaida-sanctions
Nov 2014 - Oct 2015
U.N. Al-Qaida sanctions forced-directed graph visualization.
Contributions:1 review, 116 commits, 1 PR in 10 months
directed-graphvisualizationd3d3-visualizationjavascript
johnfkraus/15puzzle
Oct 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 84 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 4 months
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