Paul Johnston
Engineering Manager, Cloud Devops at Virtana Corp.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Johnston is an experienced engineering manager and SRE evangelist with over 25 years in IT and more than a decade focused on cloud, DevOps, and data analytics. He currently leads Cloud DevOps at Virtana (following Virtana's acquisition of Zenoss), driving SRE, CI/CD and AI/ML best practices on GCP while building infrastructure with Terraform and deployment pipelines in Spinnaker and Jenkins. Paul combines hands-on technical leadership with product and customer-facing roles, having shepherded Zenoss’s shift from on‑prem to cloud and defined operational processes for TensorFlow Extended and Kubeflow Pipelines. His background includes founding product integration at startups, running a solo consultancy managing dozens of concurrent data projects, and early-stage architecture and services leadership at Convio. Known as a rapid learner with strong analytical skills, he brings a rare blend of deployment pragmatism, data engineering depth, and growing expertise in production ML workflows. Based in Austin, he blends startup grit and enterprise experience to translate data science initiatives into reliable operational practice.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.) Computer Science, Master of Arts (M.A.) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (23)
zenoss10
uniform9
threshold8
control-center8
google-cloud7
scale7
docker7
paas5
terraform5
google-cloud-platform5
kubernetes5
cloud-platform4
terraform-provider4
development-environment4
protocols3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zenoss/zing-traefik
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
Traefik image
Contributions:1 review, 15 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 11 months
docker-composedockertraefik
zenoss/inspector
Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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