John Mitchell
Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Garner, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Mitchell is a product-focused software engineering manager with 12 years of experience leading distributed teams to deliver cloud and on‑premise platforms at Red Hat, currently overseeing the Ansible Automation Hub engineering team. He combines hands-on technical depth across React UIs, Python/Django and FastAPI backends, and OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure with a strong emphasis on collaboration between open-source and product teams. John has driven CI/CD and feature-flagging practices, led major platform releases (including LDAP/AD integration and RBAC improvements), and guided his teams through reorganization while mentoring engineers toward career growth. An active open-source contributor and community maintainer, he also volunteers on creative hardware and music-focused projects, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that surfaces in cross-disciplinary initiatives like UX consistency and education outreach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HS Diploma, HS Diploma at NC School of Science and MathBS, Computer Science, Cum Laude, BS, Computer Science, Cum Laude at NC State University
English
Github Skills (200)
python10
react-redux10
hat10
automation10
dockerfile10
rest-api10
ssh10
network-configuration10
django10
ansible-automation-platform10
api10
rest10
ansible10
music10
tower10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jlmitch5/awx
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
AWX Project
Contributions:229 pushes, 77 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
pythonawx
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