John Mcnair
Lead Systems Engineer at YellowDog
Stroud, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Mcnair is a Director of Infrastructure Engineering with nine years of hands-on experience building cloud-native platforms, currently leading infrastructure at YellowDog where he designs and operates Kubernetes clusters and delivery pipelines. He has progressed through platform and systems engineering roles to drive reliability, automation and security at scale, with a strong focus on CNCF projects and IaC practices. Based in Stroud, UK, he pairs practical customer-facing solution design with platform ownership, ensuring performance and repeatability across heterogeneous cloud environments. Notably, his background spans both enterprise support and school-level ICT, giving him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to infrastructure challenges.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Coumputing and IT Computing and ICT, BSc Coumputing and IT Computing and ICT at The Open University
Github Skills (90)
continuous-delivery10
helm10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
cd10
cicd10
gitops10
docker10
devops10
volumes9
kustomize9
jsonnet9
vagrant9
packer9
declarative9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yellowdog/kube-prometheus
Dec 2020 - Nov 2024
Use Prometheus to monitor Kubernetes and applications running on Kubernetes
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 11 months
monitorkubernetesprometheusmetricsmonitoring
creativedotdesign/server-setup
Mar 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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