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 (50)
json8
network-visualization7
nodejs7
ids7
html6
force-directed-graph6
access-control6
parse6
language-agnostic6
directed-graph6
python6
d3-force6
connected6
javascript6
authorization5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
johnfkraus/world_terror_incidents_visualizations
May 2017 - May 2024
8,979 terror incidents during 2009-10 represented graphically across time, location, perpetrators and weapons using Superset and TIBCO Spotfire
Contributions:27 pushes in 7 years 1 month
supersettibcotibco-spotfirevisualization
johnfkraus/un-sanc-viz
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Parse the U.N. sanctions committees lists using Node.js and create visualizations of the network of connected individuals and entities. Includes a D3 force-directed graph.
Contributions:62 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 7 months
force-directednode-jsconnectedlistssanctions
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