John Shahid is a Senior Member of Technical Staff based in New York with 15 years of experience designing and operating distributed systems, cloud platforms, and developer tooling. He has driven core platform work across Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu—implementing Windows container support, leading buildpack and Diego teams, and adapting enterprise VMware products for secure AWS secret regions. An early contributor to InfluxDB, he co-authored its initial design and built its first query parser, and maintains a strong open-source footprint across projects like Concourse, Nokogiri, and gomega where he improves reliability, testing, and CI/CD ergonomics. Comfortable spanning back-end, DevOps, and front-end concerns, he combines deep systems engineering with pragmatic automation to move complex products into secure, production-ready environments. Notably, his OSS work includes maintaining client libraries and package formulae, reflecting both protocol-level expertise and attention to distribution and developer experience.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer and electrical engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer and electrical engineering at Polytechnic University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.8 at Higher Technological Institue
Contributions:570 commits, 44 PRs, 601 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily involved modifications to the `diego-release` BOSH release, including updates to the BBS, Auctioneer, and Route Emitter components. They addressed both back-end and infrastructure concerns, such as enabling TLS communication between components and integrating with the Loggregator V2 API for logging. The user also made changes to deployment configurations and environment setup scripts, enhancing the operability and security of the Diego platform.
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:John primarily focused on code formatting, build system enhancements, and integration with CredHub. They addressed code style issues using `gofmt` and implemented configuration flags related to CredHub, indicating a focus on build processes and integration with external services. These changes, along with adjustments to the test suite, suggest a role involving the maintenance and automation of the project's build, test, and deployment infrastructure.
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John Shahid - Senior Member Of Technical Staff at VMware Tanzu