John Plaisted
Software Engineer at Stripe
Greater Dublin Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Plaisted is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and developer tooling across top-tier tech companies. He has driven metadata platform work at LinkedIn on DataHub, modernized JavaScript compilation and web media infrastructure at Google, and most recently contributed to fintech-scale systems at Chime before joining Stripe. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, DevOps and distributed systems, he has a knack for improving developer workflows—evidenced by Docker and build refactors that streamlined local deployment for the widely used DataHub project. Based in Greater Dublin, he combines hands-on implementation with a systems-level view of reliability and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of New HampshireComputer Science, Computer Science at Daniel Webster College
Github Skills (7)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
build-automation9
bash9
git7
metadata7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
datahub-project/datahub
May 2020 - Mar 2021
The Metadata Platform for your Data and AI Stack
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 137 reviews, 74 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on improving the development workflow and build processes related to the DataHub project. They refactored Docker files to streamline development, creating a single, consolidated `docker-compose.yml` and introducing overrides and environment variables. Additionally, the user implemented scripts for quickly launching development instances and streamlined image building. These changes made the deployment and local testing of the DataHub platform more efficient.
data-managementdata-discoverydata-stackmodern-data-stackdata-catalog
jplaisted/datahub
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
A Generalized Metadata Search & Discovery Tool
Contributions:12 PRs, 112 pushes, 88 branches in 7 months
data-managementrecord-linkagemetadata-searchdiscoverymetadata
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