John Welsh is a software engineering leader with 18 years of experience building developer tooling, self-healing infrastructure, and production platforms across cloud and mobile stacks. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, he previously led area-level engineering and program initiatives at Asana and pioneered Kubernetes adoption and fast developer environments at Workday. He combines hands-on implementation—shipping mobile apps, internal devops systems, and automation for global deployments—with strategic platform design to improve developer productivity and reduce costs. Based in San Francisco with a mechanical engineering background from Cal Poly, he has a knack for turning complex operational challenges into developer-friendly tooling that scales.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Contributions:80 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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John Welsh - Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic