John W
Strategic Advisor
Grand Bassa County, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn W is a strategic advisor and open source programs expert with 12 years of focused experience building enterprise software communities, launching product initiatives, and aligning legal, marketing, product, and engineering teams around open source strategy. He has led Open Source Program Offices at Fannie Mae and Capital One, advised startups and companies like Glyptodon and Datera, and ran the Open Source Enterprise Network to codify best practices for product-driven community engagement. An early thinker on the economics of open source—author of the 2006 essay "There is no Open Source Community"—he blends practical governance, compliance, and developer enablement to modernize software delivery. John combines hands-on community wrangling from his Red Hat and Splunk days with boardroom-level GTM and ecosystem planning for startups today. Based in Grand Bassa County, he brings an unusual background (a BA in Geology and Geophysics from Yale) and a long habit of translating technical culture into measurable business value. When not advising organizations, he pursues interests in the economic drivers of open source and tactile crafts like baking bread and milling flour.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Geology and Geophysics, B.A., Geology and Geophysics at Yale University
Github Skills (104)
depot10
lms10
foundation10
filter10
golang9
lambda9
location9
management9
tencent-cloud9
gcp9
governance9
docker9
aws9
compliance9
dsl9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
johnmark/rh-events
May 2015 - Jan 2021
Data for Red Hat's conference & talk page
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 8 months
red-hatconference-talkhat
johnmark/community-website
May 2015 - Jan 2021
Source for http://community.redhat.com/
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 17 branches in 5 years 8 months
redhat
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