John聽Potocny
Principal Field Architect at Chronosphere
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Potocny is a Principal Field Architect with 11 years of experience focused on observability, monitoring, and backend systems, currently helping customers get control of containerized environments at Chronosphere. He progressed through engineering and sales-engineer roles鈥攂ridging hands-on backend development and technical customer engagement鈥攖o shape how teams reduce data complexity and optimize costs. His background includes building CI and test automation at GE, backend development at VividCortex, and translating technical constraints into scalable product solutions for SolarWinds customers. Comfortable with Go and databases, he blends deep technical fluency with field-proven architecture and advisory skills. Based in Charlottesville, Virginia, he brings a practitioner鈥檚 mindset to complex operational challenges and a knack for turning instrumentation into actionable insight. A less obvious strength is his history of improving developer productivity early in his career, which informs his pragmatic approach to observability and platform adoption.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Kettering University
Github Skills (37)
programming-language10
kafka10
sarama10
go10
golang10
producer10
apache-kafka10
handlers9
apache9
interpreter9
compiler9
odin8
goplus8
driver8
middleware8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
potocnyj/vc-beta-test
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
potocnyj/forFutureReference
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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