John-paul Herold
Senior Manager at Southwest Airlines
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn-paul Herold is a seasoned technology leader with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and scaling engineering organizations; he currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Sembi after leading developer platforms and cloud security at Southwest Airlines. He specializes in treating platforms as products—driving developer experience, continuous delivery, observability, and security to support thousands of engineers and millions of pipeline runs monthly. Known for pragmatic DevOps culture change, he blends hands-on infrastructure expertise (Kubernetes, Prometheus, AWS) with executive alignment to improve reliability and throughput. Outside of work he enjoys hands-on projects—customizing Linux and audio setups—and brings that maker mindset to systematic problem solving and team collaboration.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Southern Methodist University, Lyle School of EngineeringOaks Christian High School
English
Stackoverflow
15reputation
8kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (160)
ecosystem10
golang10
shell10
cli10
container10
zsh10
docker10
monitoring9
linux9
vagrant9
azure-functions9
bcc9
prezto9
networking9
moby9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
dailyherold/prezto
Feb 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:11 pushes in 5 years 9 months
dailyherold/dotfiles
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Contributions:391 commits, 179 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years
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