John Torrence
Site Reliability Engineer at Abarca Health
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Torrence is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of technology experience and a strong Python background, currently shaping SRE practices as the first SRE at Abarca Health in Austin. He has led and grown SRE teams—most recently managing a team of five at Invitae—designing production systems using AWS Batch, ECS, S3/EFS, RDS, and Terraform-driven on-call tooling. John combines hands-on infrastructure work (Terraform modules, monitoring, incident response) with product-focused collaboration across customer success, web, and pipeline teams to prioritize real-world customer impact and cost control. His roots in full-stack development and early experience deploying a global genetic analysis platform give him a pragmatic blend of software, ops, and data-migration expertise. Notably, his background spans clean-room manufacturing at Intel to shipping cloud-native pipelines, reflecting an unusual mix of operational discipline and cloud engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Full Stack Web Development, Certificate Full Stack Web Development at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Portland State UniversityPhysics, Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (38)
amazon-cloudwatch9
cloudwatch8
typescript8
collectd8
amazon7
microsoft7
electron7
amqp-client7
snmp7
daemon7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
prometheus-exporter7
editor7
science7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jasonjoachim/origin_disciples
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 9 PRs, 65 pushes in 6 days
javaproject-1
torrencj/torrencj.github.io
Aug 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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