John Mears
Staff Software Engineer at Equinix
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mears is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and automation for datacenters and hyperconverged platforms. He blends deep Linux, networking, and VMware expertise with strong software skills in Python, Go, and scripting to design microservices and automate complex installations and diagnostics. At NetApp SolidFire he drove Python- and Go-based services for Kubernetes-deployed storage solutions and previously owned Tier 4 sustaining support and core-dump debugging at VMware. Security-minded and curious by nature, he frequently turns low-level log analysis and intrusion monitoring insights into robust, automated tooling. Based in Golden, Colorado, he prefers end-to-end understanding of systems and often reaches beyond his title—troubleshooting hardware, networking, and software layers to deliver reliable production outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information System Security, Bachelor of Science Information System Security at WESTWOOD COLLEGE
Github Skills (22)
minecraft10
redfish10
python8
java8
ipmi7
ipmitool7
collector6
server5
hardware5
data-structure5
bare-metal5
raid4
orientdb4
vendor4
metadata3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
metal-toolbox/bioscfg
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
BIOS configuration controller
Contributions:35 reviews, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year
theotw/natssync
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
A distributed bridge system to sync messages from one nats cluster to another. The idea is to use this across the Cloud / On Prem gap
Contributions:24 reviews, 45 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 6 months
natssyncbridgeon-premcluster
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