Johnny Starr
Principal DevOps Engineer at Splunk
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnny Starr is a Principal DevOps Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience architecting, automating, and securing cloud-native and legacy infrastructure across fintech, payments, and observability domains. Based in Honolulu, he leads developer productivity at Splunk after driving Kubernetes, EKS, Packer, Terraform, and platform automation at AppDynamics, and has a track record of implementing CI/CD, compliance, and cost-saving measures at scale. He’s equally comfortable authoring Ansible roles, Chef cookbooks and CI pipelines as he is designing high-availability architectures and compliance test suites (InSpec, ChefSpec). Johnny’s background includes deep automation for IBM Z and AIX platforms, bespoke orchestration systems using RabbitMQ/Consul, and multi-cloud IaaS templating, demonstrating rare breadth across modern and legacy stacks. Known for turning operational complexity into repeatable, auditable systems, he blends abstract architecture with daily terminal-first problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Medina Valley
Github Skills (35)
65027
pdp6
apple26
retrocomputing5
passwords5
sega5
assembly4
appleii4
libretro3
emulation3
windows3
secrets3
plugin2
cpu2
c-compiler2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnnystarr/RHCSA
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:75 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
johnnystarr/jvm65
Apr 2021 - May 2021
A JVM targeted 6502 simulator written in Kotlin
Contributions:5 releases, 60 PRs, 147 pushes in 13 days
jvm-bytecodejava-bytecodesimulatorkotlinjvm
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