John Shenk
Software Engineer at RightsHelper
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJohn Shenk is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling, backend services, and DevOps automation, currently focused at RightsHelper. He has a strong Go background and a track record across startups and enterprises—contributing to Kubernetes-focused projects like Ketch where he improved CLI UX, added CRDs, and strengthened CI/CD and integration tests. Comfortable across the full stack, he’s shipped systems for ecommerce, security appliances, and platform tooling while regularly learning new technologies. Based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, he pairs hands-on engineering with operational thinking and a habit of daily study, and he still believes in getting outside sometimes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
IT - Software Development, Software Development, IT - Software Development, Software Development at Chippewa Valley Technical CollegeMBA, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, MBA, Marketing, Entrepreneurship at University of Illinois ChicagoBS, Communications, BS, Communications at Illinois State University
Github Skills (16)
command-line-interface10
kubernetes10
go10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
github-ci8
yaml8
githubaction-workflow8
helm7
crc7
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
theketchio/ketch
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Ketch is an application delivery framework that facilitates the deployment and management of applications on Kubernetes using a simple command line interface
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 155 reviews, 68 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the Ketch application delivery framework, focusing on command-line interface (CLI) enhancements and testing. Their work involved resolving merge conflicts, implementing new features for app deployments, and refactoring CLI output. Additionally, the user updated the CI/CD scripts and incorporated integration tests, which demonstrates involvement in DevOps aspects. The user also implemented new CRDs for Job and CronJob.
command-line-interfacekubernetes
stinkyfingers/importer
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 1 push in 1 month
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