John Shimek
Senior Software Engineer at Backblaze Cloud Storage & Backup
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shimek is a Senior Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems, currently focused on Backblaze's storage and backup platform. He has deep backend and DevOps expertise from roles at Target, Code42 and earlier firms, and contributes to notable open-source cloud tooling—most prominently enhancing OpenStack support and security group management in Spinnaker's clouddriver project. Comfortable across cloud provider APIs and authentication models (including OpenStack v2/v3 and SSL troubleshooting), he blends pragmatic engineering with infrastructure-level problem solving. Based in the Twin Cities, he pairs an MS in Software Engineering with a long history of shipping production-ready distributed systems and quietly prefers solving tricky integration bugs over interview pitches.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Minnesota State University, MankatoAnoka-Ramsey Community CollegeUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (13)
management10
javas10
cloud-infrastructure10
manage10
openstack10
securitymanager10
java10
security10
rest-api9
automations8
automation8
groovy8
fest6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
May 2016 - Sep 2018
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 33 PRs, 130 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the `clouddriver` project by refactoring and implementing features related to Openstack cloud provider integration. Their work included enhancing Openstack client authentication, supporting v2 and v3 versions, and addressing SSL-related issues. Further contributions encompassed the addition of security group management functionalities, including upserting, deleting, and managing rules. These changes demonstrate a strong understanding of Openstack API interactions and cloud infrastructure management.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
varikin/dali
Jun 2008 - Feb 2012
The website of jesleephotos.com, Something Amazing!
Contributions:105 commits in 3 years 9 months
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