John Willis
Owner at Botchagalupe Technologies
Auburn, Alabama, United States
Summary
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SeniorJohn Willis is an enterprise IT veteran and founder with over three decades of hands-on systems and infrastructure experience, now focused on helping CIOs adopt AI through his newsletter AI CIO and R&D work at Botchagalupe Technologies. He has led transformation and developer-ecosystem efforts at companies including Red Hat, Docker, and Canonical, and founded or sold multiple startups that brought DevOps and network automation to market. Known for bridging deep technical craftsmanship (from IBM mainframe assembler days) with modern cloud-native practices, he repeatedly turns operational complexity into repeatable platforms. His blend of executive leadership, startup founding, and short-form research roles (e.g., Distinguished Researcher at Kosli) gives him a unique perspective on pragmatic AI adoption and IT transformation. Based in Auburn, Alabama, he combines a long history of product and service innovation with a current focus on translating AI strategy into executable plans for enterprises.
11 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (30)
docker10
ecosystem10
golang10
container9
moby9
assemble9
go9
client-library8
docker-compose8
docker-image8
sdn7
nodejs7
networking7
websocket7
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
botchagalupe/my-presentations
Jul 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
botchagalupe/DockerDo
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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