John Wynkoop
Principal Architect at SurePath AI
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Wynkoop is a Principal Architect with nine years focused on cloud-native transformation, guiding companies through containerization, CI/CD, and large-scale global deployments. He combines hands-on engineering and leadership experience from roles spanning Google Cloud architecture at CDW to cost-optimization work as a Cloud Economist, bringing both technical depth and commercial impact. John has led SRE and architecture teams migrating customers to Kubernetes, built automation across diverse stacks (Ansible, Go, Python, Puppet), and driven enterprise cloud adoption and modernization. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of infrastructure, networking, and platform engineering—having begun his career supporting large research and HPC networks—and he often translates complex networking constraints into practical cloud designs. Based in Knoxville, Tennessee, he brings a pragmatic focus on operational reliability and cost-efficiency that has delivered measurable savings and smoother digital transformations.
9 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Florida Gulf Coast University
Github Skills (54)
continuous-testing9
continuous-integration9
circleci9
docker9
cd8
continuous-delivery8
kubernetes8
continuous-deployment8
lifecycle8
validation7
audit7
profiling7
go7
logging7
datadog6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IGNW/k8s-workshop
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
Supporting material for the IGNW Kubernetes workshop labs
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
jlwynkoop/TestRepo1
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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