Summary
John Longanecker is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native systems for defense, satellite imaging, and large enterprise customers. He has led cloud engineering work at ICEYE and Raytheon after building platforms and tooling at Stark & Wayne that supported multibillion-dollar clients and contributed to open source projects like Concourse and RabbitMQ. Comfortable across the full stack, John pairs a strong academic foundation (MS and BS in Computer Science plus degrees in Media and Digital Media) with practical expertise in VM and container platforms, automation, and distributed systems troubleshooting. He has a track record of creating bespoke developer tools and stress-testing utilities (including a RabbitMQ stress tester with a web GUI) and teaching teams cloud-native best practices. Based in Irvine, CA, he brings a mix of rigorous engineering, customer-facing mentoring, and a penchant for solving operational complexity behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science/Master of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science/Master of Science Computer Science at University at Buffalo
Associate of Science (A.S.) Digital Media, Associate of Science (A.S.) Digital Media at Niagara County Community College
English, Chinese