Summary
John Valko is a Technical Lead at Google with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and networking systems. He progressed from Site Reliability Engineer to leadership roles within Google Cloud, focusing on logging, DevOps experience improvements, and reliability for distributed services. Prior to Google he developed carrier-grade infrastructure at Cisco and taught introductory Python as a graduate assistant at Purdue, where he earned MS and BS degrees in Computer Science. John enjoys deep technical challenges and favors automation to replace manual ops, reflecting a pragmatic bias toward reducing human toil. Based in the Greater Pittsburgh region, he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on engineering and a steady trajectory of technical growth.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Purdue University