John Ramsden
Software Engineer (Prof I) at UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJohn Ramsden is a software engineer and DevOps specialist with 11 years of experience who blends production-grade cloud infrastructure work with academic research in computer engineering. Currently at Canonical and Skvare, he has led DevOps teams, implemented CI/CD and IaC best practices, and built internal APIs and dashboards in Go and Python to automate operations and surface executive metrics. His research at UBC showcases a deep systems focus—bringing a 1700x PIM/CUDA speedup, high-accuracy Linux intrusion detection, and SSD/ZNS cache designs in C and Rust—highlighting an uncommon bridge between low-level performance engineering and reliable cloud operations. Based in Vancouver, he mentors engineers and students, pairing practical leadership with measurable technical impact across both industry and academia.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science - MASc Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Applied Science - MASc Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (200)
statsd10
btrfs10
influxdb10
spice10
kodi10
prometheus10
solaris10
mongodb10
zsh10
ips10
initramfs10
netdata10
time-series10
hosts10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
johnramsden/docs
Jul 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:255 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 6 months
johnramsden/zfsdesnap
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 48 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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