Jon Shanks
CEO & Founder at Appvia
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJon Shanks is a seasoned cloud-native leader and founder with over a decade of experience turning complex infrastructure problems into secure, self-service developer platforms. As CEO of Appvia he builds products and open-source tooling that make Kubernetes and cloud adoption simple, scalable and secure for organisations without large specialist teams. His career spans ISP roots through high-scale roles at Betfair and NYSE to creating the Home Office’s central container platform in 2015, where he pioneered automation that shortened delivery times and hardened security across the SDLC. He combines hands-on engineering sensibilities with product and stakeholder leadership, focusing on well-architected landing zones, guardrails and developer experience. An active promoter of open practices, he also co-hosts the Cloud Unplugged podcast to distill operational lessons for practitioners. Notably, he emphasizes secure-by-default and fast delivery patterns that let teams consume platform services independently while preserving central governance.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
31reputation
305reached
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2questions
Github Skills (144)
scheduling10
fabric10
subnet10
kubernetes10
go10
network10
docker10
docker-image10
mesos9
kubernetes-cluster9
redisgraph9
controller9
coredns9
build-automation9
google-cloud9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
UKHomeOffice/technical-service-requirements
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Technical Service Requirements: This defines what a service needs i.e. "As a service: I need monitoring etc."
Contributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
as-a-servicemonitoringdockerneed
UKHomeOffice/docker-python
Jul 2016 - Jan 2020
Docker Python Container
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
pythondocker-imagedockerpython3docker-python
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