John Shiver
Staff Devops Engineer at Bread Financial
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Shiver is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems and operational tooling across startups and enterprise teams. He specializes in Go, Python, Rust, and SQL-backed architectures (Postgres/MySQL) and has repeatedly shipped production services using ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS. A founding engineer at a recent startup, he designed a modular monolith API, ETL pipelines, and Snowflake integrations while also leading a small backend/devops team. His work spans microservices and serverless systems, with hands-on experience automating infra via Ansible and Terraform. Based in Philadelphia, he brings rare cross-discipline depth—formally trained in law before transitioning to software—which informs his pragmatic approach to risk, compliance, and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Tandon Bridge Online, Computer Science, Tandon Bridge Online, Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology at Muhlenberg CollegeStudent, Python Web Development, Student, Python Web Development at Code FellowsJuris Doctorate, Law, Juris Doctorate, Law at University of San Francisco School of Law
Github Skills (52)
deterministic10
go-client9
factory9
testing9
test-fixtures9
python9
openapi-codegen9
django9
sqlalchemy9
replay9
rest-api9
data-structures9
boilerplate8
openapi8
pytest8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnshiver/algorithms
Jun 2014 - Oct 2018
Algorithms + Data Structures Implemented in Python
Contributions:86 commits, 1 PR, 72 pushes in 4 years 5 months
data-structurespythondata-algorithmsdata-structures-algorithms
johnshiver/football_tools
Jan 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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