John Sazon
Head Of Engineering at 24metrics.com
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Sazon is a Head of Engineering based in Berlin with a decade of experience evolving from system administration and DevOps into leading cloud-native backend teams. He oversees engineering and release processes at 24metrics while still bringing hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Google Cloud, and Go from his prior backend and site-reliability work. A pragmatic leader who prefers motivated, well-oiled teams, he combines hiring and mentoring with day-to-day technical problem solving. John is an active open-source contributor—improving the popular go-gitlab SDK and hardening Prometheus-to-Microsoft-Teams tooling—bringing a maker’s mindset to production reliability and testing. His background spans multinational projects and roles at Accenture, giving him a practiced ability to scale practices across teams and geographies. Collected at conferences and always trying new tech, he blends operational depth with a taste for clean, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Information and Technology; Software Development, Bachelor of Science Information and Technology; Software Development at Colegio de San Juan de Letran Abucay
Github Skills (19)
docker10
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
testing10
makefile10
dockers10
go10
api10
sdk10
cicd9
notificationmanager9
alarmmanager9
kubernetes-pods8
kubernetes8
devops8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus-msteams/prometheus-msteams
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Forward Prometheus Alert Manager notifications to Microsoft Teams.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 releases, 1 review, 74 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:John's primary focus was on improving the project's build and testing infrastructure. They introduced unit tests to improve the quality of the code, refactored the codebase for better maintainability, and updated build steps using Docker and Make. The user also modified the main application and server configuration. These contributions enhanced the project's reliability and streamlined the development process.
golangmicrosoft-teamsalertprometheus-alertdevops
xanzy/go-gitlab
May 2018 - Jun 2018
GitLab Go SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:John contributed to the `go-gitlab` SDK, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their work included adding merge method constants for project creation, creating a dedicated struct for group members options, and adding a reset password field to user creation options. They also fixed an issue related to the TransferGroup functionality and added tests for various group-related methods.
golanggitlab-cigitlab-apigitlabsdk
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