Mike Johnston
Kubernetes Principal Engineer at Supergiant.io
Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Johnston is a Kubernetes Principal Engineer with over 25 years of systems and software experience and more than a decade focused on cloud-native infrastructure. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership—having led engineering teams as a CTO, co-created the Supergiant Kubernetes distribution, and helped reduce multi-cloud costs at scale. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam developer and active CNCF contributor, he’s equally comfortable mentoring engineers and designing secure, mission-critical platforms for commercial and defense environments. His background includes building Kubernetes for edge aviation, architecting Sam’s Club cluster reliability, and sustaining classified programs under U.S. government contracts. Based in Fayetteville, AR, he maintains an active security clearance and a reputation for turning complex distributed systems into reliable, automated operations.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
High Shool Degree High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High Shool Degree High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Rison High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (51)
git10
docker10
github10
lifecycle10
digitalocean10
kubernetes-deployment10
aws10
golang10
kubernetes-setup10
deployment-automation10
patch9
kubernetes9
kubernetes-helm9
devops9
multi-cluster9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gopherstein/supergiant
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Automatically scale hardware and easily run stateful applications using Kubernetes.
Contributions:156 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
scalecloudfoundrykuberneteshardwarestateful
supergiant/charts
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
This is the Supergiant Helm repository. This repository is automatically linked to the Supergiant Control Catalog allowing users to deploy Supergiant tools with ease. Of course, this is just a Helm repo and can be used in the standard manner using the Kubernetes Helm client.
Contributions:72 commits, 3 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 11 months
supergianthelmclient-helmhelm-chartskubernetes
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