John Pape
Senior Solutions Engineer, Essential Management, Technology Expert Labs at IBM
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Pape is a senior solutions engineer with 11+ years designing and operationalizing cloud-native, Kubernetes-first architectures at IBM, where he leads FOAK engagements from presales through production and hypercare. He blends deep platform support experience—covering Kubernetes, OpenShift, Istio, Cloud Foundry and legacy WebSphere stacks—with hands-on automation and tooling work that has streamlined global support and offering onboarding. Known for translating executive-level strategy into concrete engineering decisions, he creates coding standards, runbooks, and Day-2 operational practices that drive reliable hybrid-cloud deployments. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a curiosity for continuous improvement—summed up by his GitHub tagline, "I kube and I code things"—and a track record of mentoring teams worldwide to elevate client outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at Virginia College at Huntsville
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Github Skills (140)
api-management10
kitematic10
security10
consul10
theia10
istio10
eclipse10
microservices10
service-mesh10
devtools10
proxies10
golang10
kubernetes10
nomad10
circuit-breaker10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jpapejr/toolbox
Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
[No longer maintained] A collection of tools, scripts, and other stuff for use on Mac and linux development boxes
Contributions:20 releases, 3 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 5 months
linux-developmentunicornsdmglinuxmac
jpapejr/dotfiles
Aug 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:59 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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