John Schnake
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Schnake is a Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable APIs and solving DevOps challenges for distributed systems, currently at Amazon after senior engineering roles at VMware and Apcera. A polyglot developer fluent in Go, Ruby, Bash and familiar with .NET stacks, he combines backend systems work with practical security-aware integrations—evidenced by his Sonobuoy contributions that added SSH support and Kubernetes secret handling for a widely used Kubernetes diagnostic tool. He has led technical efforts as Sonobuoy tech lead and advanced RBAC and CLI functionality, showing strength in both design and hands-on implementation. His career traces from technical roles in industry to disciplined systems work developed during service in the US Navy and advanced study in computer science, physics, mathematics and philosophy. Known as a lifelong learner and pragmatic problem solver, he brings deep distributed-systems insight and a knack for making complex tooling accessible to operators.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at College of CharlestonBachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics at Louisiana State University
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
security10
yaml9
shell8
script8
sh8
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automations7
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-tanzu/sonobuoy
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
Sonobuoy is a diagnostic tool that makes it easier to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a set of Kubernetes conformance tests and other plugins in an accessible and non-destructive manner.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 269 reviews, 439 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to enhancing the Sonobuoy CLI by adding SSH capabilities, including flags for specifying SSH keys and users. They implemented the use of Kubernetes secrets for secure SSH key storage and integration. The user also modified the core configuration to include information for the newly implemented functionality. The user fixed issues regarding RBAC and made progress updates.
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