Summary
John Schmidt is a Senior Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience architecting, migrating, and scaling distributed systems across major cloud providers. Currently at Apple, he previously ran global DevOps and network operations at InMobi, where he led multi-discipline teams to deliver secure, cost-controlled, fault-tolerant platforms in Azure, AWS, and GCP. He has deep expertise in CI/CD, Terraform-driven infrastructure, container orchestration, SRE practices, and large-scale monitoring and logging stacks from his time at AerServ, Shazam, and Nickelodeon. John combines strategic policy and vendor selection experience with day-to-day operational rigor—having managed NOC, DevSecOps, and build/deploy functions simultaneously. He’s known for turning complex legacy estates into automated, cloud-native platforms while optimizing cost and security. Based in California with a BS in Computer Information Technology, he brings both breadth across cloud ecosystems and a track record of launching and scaling consumer-facing applications.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Spanish