Summary
John Vanbuskirk is a Site Reliability Engineer II with eight years of focused experience in full-stack development and production operations, currently driving reliability at Thryv. He brings deep AWS expertise—EC2, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda—and hands-on CI/CD automation using GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline to streamline deployments and observability. John’s background spans Ruby on Rails and Django alongside a progression from QA to developer operations and SRE roles, reflecting a practical, end-to-end understanding of software lifecycles. Based in Chandler, AZ, he thrives in collaborative teams that emphasize mentorship and continuous improvement, and he often applies his early electronics and systems-admin roots to troubleshoot infrastructure at the hardware-software boundary.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA) Business/Commerce General, Associate of Arts (AA) Business/Commerce General at University of Phoenix
Electronics, Electronics at Wexford-Missaukee Career Technical Center