John Pfuntner
Software Engineer (consultant From Actalent) at Cisco
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Pfuntner is a seasoned software engineer with roots at IBM and over four decades of hands-on development experience, now focusing on short-term consulting engagements in cloud, security hardening, and automation. He combines deep Unix, Python, and Core Java expertise with practical DevOps toolsmithing—Ansible, Docker, Terraform, Packer and CI/CD—to build pre-hardened Linux images and auditable systems for enterprise security teams. Comfortable working remotely or onsite, he has a strong track record at Cisco and other firms delivering refactors, SRE tooling, and testing infrastructure. Notably, he shifted from large-scale corporate roles to curated contract work after refreshing his skills with a web technologies associate degree, and even moved his open-source activity off GitHub to Codeberg, reflecting a pragmatic, privacy-minded approach to tooling.
9 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science degree, Web Technologies, 4.0, Associate in Applied Science degree, Web Technologies, 4.0 at Wake Technical Community CollegeBachelors degree, Computer science, 3.495, Bachelors degree, Computer science, 3.495 at Clarkson University
Stackoverflow
317reputation
15kreached
5answers
17questions
Github Skills (147)
python10
testing10
nagios10
automation10
ssh10
unix10
puppet10
linux10
packer10
ansible10
tdd10
cygwin10
docker10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pfuntner/bruno-ansible
Dec 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
pfuntner/fun
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 198 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.