John-paul Dienst is a pragmatic engineering leader and VP of Engineering with over a decade of experience designing cloud-native platforms and driving DevOps practices. He blends deep Unix and Linux expertise with hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, ECS, Fastly, Datadog, and languages including Python, JavaScript/React, and C#. Having progressed from individual contributor roles to director and executive positions at Steno, he’s comfortable both crafting system architecture and scaling teams. John-paul’s background in software architecture and platform engineering is augmented by an entrepreneurial stint running CICDIENST Software, signaling a bias for ownership and practical problem solving. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and business, and is known as a self-motivated learner who favors elegant, production-focused solutions over academic complexity.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Science - Software Engineering at University of West Florida
Master's Degree, MBA - General Business, Master's Degree, MBA - General Business at University of North Florida
Contributions:42 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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