John Strunk
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Strunk is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 11 years in industry and a deep research pedigree from Carnegie Mellon, where his PhD work applied utility functions to automate and tune storage systems. At Red Hat and previously NetApp’s Advanced Technology Group he has bridged research and productization—driving innovations such as workload-aware data placement that influenced NetApp’s Flash Pool and building live workload capture and analytics pipelines. He excels at reducing enterprise risk and enabling adoption of new technologies by turning academic ideas into deployable systems and tooling. Based in Apex, NC, he combines systems-level thinking with practical engineering, and his background includes hands-on hardware and FPGA work from early internships that inform his pragmatic approach to storage and infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BCmpE, Computer Engineering, BCmpE, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyPhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (184)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JohnStrunk/tilt-wizard
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Automatic calibration of Mot-Ion and other virtual pinball tilt sensors
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 35 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pinballsensorstiltioncalibration
JohnStrunk/release
Jul 2021 - Sep 2023
Release tooling for OpenShift
Contributions:54 pushes, 59 branches in 2 years 2 months
kubernetesopenshifttooling
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