John Vrbanac
Sr. Engineering Manager at Nexcess
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Vrbanac is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on developer with 14 years of professional experience and over 18 years of shipping production code and architecting distributed systems. Based in Austin, he has progressed from building interactive content and CI practices at Pearson to driving cloud and security-focused engineering at Rackspace and leading platform and delivery teams at Liquid Web and Nexcess. He combines people leadership as a Senior Engineering Manager with deep back-end and DevOps expertise, contributing to high-performance Python projects like Falcon to improve reliability, testing, and developer experience. Known for practical ownership, he often blends product-facing engineering with infrastructure and open-source improvements, and has a background launching his own software services company that informs his product and operational instincts.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business Management, B.S. Business Management at Liberty UniversityStudied Computer Science Engineering (Network Security Concentration) and Marketing at LeTourneau University before transferring to Liberty University, Studied Computer Science Engineering (Network Security Concentration) and Marketing at LeTourneau University before transferring to Liberty University at LeTourneau University
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python10
dockers10
testing10
cicd9
rest9
webpages8
web-content8
pytest8
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microservices6
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Github contributions (5)
falconry/falcon
Apr 2015 - May 2019
The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with a focus on reliability and performance at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:67 commits, 253 PRs, 235 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:John contributed to the project by addressing build and testing issues, resolving linting errors, and adding Dockerfiles for benchmarking. They updated documentation and test files to improve code quality and maintainability. The user also implemented media-type handling for requests and responses within the API, and made minor improvements to the custom HTTP methods. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the project's reliability, and developer experience.
microservicespythonrestapiwsgi
jmvrbanac/alchemize
Jul 2014 - Oct 2019
A simple library that allows for serialization and deserialization of models via mapping definitions
Contributions:108 commits, 16 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 years 3 months
deserializationserialization
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