John Menke
Lead Software Engineer at Consumer Reports
Glen Gardner, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Menke is a pragmatic Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building Spring Boot microservices, APIs, and persistence layers across SQL Server, Oracle and MongoDB. He blends backend engineering with DevOps fluency—automating legacy systems in Python and orchestrating cloud-native deployments on AWS EKS using CloudFormation, CDK and boto3. His language toolkit spans Python, Java, TypeScript and Go, and his background includes roles from build engineering to Java integration lead at large enterprises like Verizon and Consumer Reports. Comfortable designing APIs and CI/CD pipelines, he brings both hands-on coding and operational ownership to production systems. Based in New Jersey, he also maintains a longform technical blog that surfaces practical insights from his years as a developer and DBA.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Chubb InstituteMaster of Science (MS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Science (MS), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Knowledge Systems Institute
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Github Skills (151)
aws10
runtimes9
docker-compose9
jackson9
golang9
authentication9
terraform9
infrastructure9
development-kit9
docker9
nerdctl9
oauth9
aws-cloud9
k3s9
typescript9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jmjava/2020Code
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Resources for Go, Python, Java, Lua, Julia, WebAssembly, Spring and other topics aggregated from several git repos
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
golangluapythonspring5webassembly
guzmonne/organizations-stack
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
AWS Organizations constructs. Based on aws-bootstrap-kit.
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 1 issue in 8 days
amazon-web-servicesorganizationsamazon-cognitoawslogin-system
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