Summary
John Marx is a seasoned technology consultant and DevOps architect who blends over three decades of foundational IT leadership with seven years focused on modern cloud-native and platform engineering practice. Currently an Account Principal at Cognizant’s Tech Modernization Practice, he helps enterprise and federal clients accelerate time-to-market through CI/CD, GitOps, and internal developer platforms. John’s hands-on work spans Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Terraform, and custom Go/Python tooling, and he’s driven platform modernization for organizations from United Airlines to Leidos and Syapse. A frequent instructor and curriculum author, he’s translated deep operational experience into training and certification work for Linux Academy and GitHub. Notably, he scaled a bootstrapped consultancy from a garage startup into an Inc. 500 company and later combined that entrepreneurial perspective with rigorous governance and compliance expertise to enable secure, repeatable delivery pipelines. Based in New Hope, Alabama, he pairs practical engineering craftsmanship with strategic advisory skills to make DevSecOps both frictionless and auditable.
8 years of coding experience