John Maguire
Senior Software Engineer II at HashiCorp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Maguire is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and test automation for distributed infrastructure, currently contributing to HashiCorp projects like Consul and consul-template. He combines strong Go backend development with pragmatic testing discipline, having added namespace-aware integration tests and features that improve Consul’s handling of exported services and Envoy proxy tooling on Kubernetes. Previously a lead engineer at CB Insights and a senior application engineer at Medidata, he has deep full-stack experience and a history of introducing frameworks and mentoring teams. A Georgia Tech MS candidate with roots in math, he pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on open-source impact on widely used service discovery and service mesh tooling. Notably, he focuses on making complex distributed behaviors observable and testable, turning operational edge cases into robust code and tests.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPAC Program Computer Science, PAC Program Computer Science at New York UniversityDev BootcampBachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at Pace University
Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
back-end-development10
testing10
configuration-management10
http10
consul10
go10
api-gateway10
tcp10
kubernetes-pods10
backend10
cli10
service-mesh9
go-testing9
golang9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-k8s
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:391 reviews, 16 commits, 205 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the development of the `consul-k8s` project's command-line interface (CLI) for interacting with Envoy proxies in Kubernetes. They added initial flag parsing capabilities and created test cases for the `log` command, and later added support for the `loglevel` command. The user also added features to print and format output for getting current log levels for a proxy in a pod, with additional flags for kubeconfig, kubecontext, and namespace.
meshhelmconsul-servicehelm-chartvault
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 196 reviews, 238 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the testing of the Consul project, specifically focusing on the API gateway functionality. Their work involved adding and updating integration tests using Go, with an emphasis on namespacing features. They also refactored existing tests and introduced new tests to ensure the correct behavior of features related to HTTP routes and TCP routes within the API gateway. They worked on the configuration entries that are used to define different configurations for API gateways and the underlying infrastructure.
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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