John Nieves
Senior Platform Engineer
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Nieves is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, reliable infrastructure and developer tooling from New York. He currently leads Kubernetes, Terraform, IAM, and internal platform initiatives at Grow Therapy while advising companies on AI infrastructure, AIOps pipelines, and conversational AI architecture. Previously he drove developer experience and platform automation at Justworks—shipping ephemeral environments, Backstage, and org-wide onboarding improvements—demonstrating a blend of hands-on execution and cross-functional technical leadership. Comfortable across cloud-native operations, incident response, and cost optimization, he pairs deep automation skills with a keen interest in applying emerging AI to operational challenges. An early career mix of implementation engineering and technical recruiting gives him a rare perspective on both product integrations and talent fit.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Fullstack AcademyFront End Nanodegree, Front End Nanodegree at UdacityUniversity of North TexasBachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Purdue UniversityAssociates, Computer Engineering, Associates, Computer Engineering at SUNY Rockland Community CollegeNodeschool
English, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
parser9
newrelic9
datadog8
magento-extension8
commonmark8
opentracing8
apm8
javascript8
nodejs8
markdown8
jquery-plugin8
compiler6
keystonejs6
webfontloader6
cms6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joeyfromspace/vales
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 23 days
kustomer/multer-s3
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
multermulter-storageamazonamazon-s3aws-s3
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