Jonathan Wells
Senior Engineering Manager at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJonathan Wells is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Diego with over a decade of experience building and leading engineering organizations across startups and large enterprises, including Apple, Bowers & Wilkins and Microsoft. He combines hands-on full‑stack and cloud architecture skills—spanning mobile, backend services, Kubernetes and Terraform—with proven delivery of high‑volume, 24x7 products and multi‑million dollar budgets. Comfortable from bootstrap to enterprise scale, he has founded startups, led cloud migrations, and designed systems end‑to‑end while also growing and coaching multi-team engineering organizations. A pragmatic DevOps advocate, he contributes infrastructure-as-code work (Terraform for Kubernetes on AWS) and automates complex deployments. Early tinkerer turned seasoned leader, he pairs deep technical fluency with product empathy and a track record of shipping reliable, customer-focused systems.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
English, australian
Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
kubernetes10
aws10
terraform10
kubernetes-pods10
makefile9
automation9
automations9
coreos8
etcd7
route537
bash7
aws-s36
amazon-s36
s3-bucket6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kz8s/tack
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Terraform module for creating Kubernetes cluster running on Container Linux by CoreOS in an AWS VPC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 574 commits, 109 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan focused on infrastructure-as-code and automation, primarily using Terraform to manage a Kubernetes cluster on AWS. They implemented makefiles for generating EC2 key pairs, and added targets for bastion and Route53 configurations, and created targets for ETCD. The user refactored the build process and added targets to handle S3, demonstrating expertise in automating cloud infrastructure deployment and configuration.
aws-vpccoreoskubernetes-clusterlinuxterraform-module
kz8s/terraform-provider-tack
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 74 commits, 2 PRs in 20 days
providercoreosterraform-moduleskuberneteshelpers
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