Jon Sturdevant
OpenShift Product Owner at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Chapin, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJon Sturdevant is an experienced software engineer and product owner with 14 years building and designing Java-based web applications and multi-tenant OpenShift platforms. At BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina he transitioned from senior systems designer and technical advisor roles into owning the OpenShift product backlog and improving developer experience through tools like Red Hat Developer Hub (Backstage). He brings deep hands-on knowledge of middleware and enterprise stacks—WebSphere, Hibernate, Spring, JMS, and a broad SCM/testing toolset—while also shaping delivery practices and measurable process improvements. Jon is comfortable switching between system design, senior development SWAT work, and stakeholder engagement, having influenced executive evaluations of new technologies. He co-founded a small software firm, giving him practical UX, API and brand experience beyond purely backend systems. Based in Chapin, SC, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for simplifying complex platform operations for developer teams.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering Technology, BS, Computer Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (38)
application-management10
portal10
java9
data-management9
open-data9
react9
cloud-native8
solution8
reactive8
kubernetes7
encryption6
php6
sql6
android6
quarkus6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sturdy5/dev-container
Feb 2022 - Aug 2025
This is a generic dev container setup which allows for you to build in whichever languages and tools you might need when doing development.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 3 years 6 months
sturdy5/dotfiles
Feb 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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