John Nurme
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Nurme is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes engineering, currently building production-grade systems at Google Cloud in Seattle. He brings a strong back-end and DevOps background from contributing to the upstream kubernetes project—working on network proxy, cloud provider integrations, and controller metrics to improve observability at scale. Prior roles at Viasat involved end-to-end systems work from full-stack JavaScript/Python services to automated crypto test frameworks and lab management, showing comfort across product, security, and operations. His early security and cloud administration experience and penchant for automation reflect a practical focus on reliability and scalable tooling. Colleagues would note he blends deep systems knowledge with hands-on implementation, often surfacing subtle infrastructure improvements that make large distributed systems more robust.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Amherst College
English, French
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-infrastructure9
prometheus9
cloud-services9
container8
cnc8
networking8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 15 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:John made contributions related to network proxy configurations and cloud provider integrations within the Kubernetes project. Their work involved updating dependencies, such as the konnectivity client, and modifying code to incorporate environment variables for cloud provider selection. Additionally, the user implemented metrics for controller instances, enhancing observability and monitoring capabilities within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
jdnurme/kubernetes
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Contributions:19 pushes, 10 branches in 7 months
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
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