John Rofrano
DevOps Engineer at IBM
Town of Carmel, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJohn Rofrano is a seasoned DevOps Engineer and Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center who leads AI-driven application modernization efforts and architects cloud-native, polyglot microservice solutions. He blends hands-on engineering—Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Cloud Foundry—and backend Python/Flask development with a long history of shipping pioneering enterprise web and warehousing products at IBM, including an early server-side Java “Virtual Sales Assistant” patent. An adjunct professor at NYU Courant and Stern (and former instructor at Columbia), he translates research into practical labs and CI/CD teaching materials—contributing labs that showcase Travis CI, GitHub Actions, and Bluemix/Cloud Foundry for reproducible student projects. Author of industry papers, standards, books, and holder of 20+ patents, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a passion for teaching and multimedia creativity in video and music.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
api-rest10
cloud-foundry10
python10
redis10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
jmix10
flask-ask10
test-integration10
rest-api10
test-unit10
unit-test10
flask10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nyu-devops/lab-github-actions
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
This lab demonstrates how to use GitHub Actions with Python and Redis containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 31 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on developing and testing the back-end service for a counter application, demonstrating proficiency in Python and the Flask framework. They wrote unit tests to ensure the application's reliability and functionality, covering various aspects like counter creation, listing, updating, and deletion. Furthermore, the user implemented and configured the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, including code linting and coverage analysis.
containerspythonredisdockerci-cd
nyu-devops/lab-bluemix-cf
Feb 2017 - Oct 2022
This repo demonstrates how deploy a simple Python Flask RESTful service using Bluemix Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 130 commits, 31 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily focused on developing and maintaining the back-end functionality of a Python Flask RESTful service. They implemented initial code, and performed updates to handle database interactions and API endpoint behaviors. The user worked on creating, updating, deleting and retrieving pets. The user also refactored code for model consistency and to ensure proper database connection.
foundrypythonredisflask-apicloud-foundry
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