John VanBuskirk

Improved processes, especially focused on long-term solutions to on-call events as well as documenting and automating processes.

• Enhanced Operational Processes by implementing long-term solutions to recurring on-call events, emphasizing documentation and automation to improve team efficiency and reduce resolution time.
• Designed and implemented a system to identify aged secrets across platforms, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub, and CircleCI, and automated the creation of maintenance tickets in Jira to ensure timely secret rotation and compliance with security policies.
• Developed automated checks for SQL pull requests to enforce best practices, validate syntax, and verify proper scoping of UPDATE and DELETE queries, reducing the risk of unintended data modifications.
• Built an API to dynamically map resources such as GCP projects and GitHub repositories to their respective owning teams, enhancing visibility and accountability across the organization.  Leveraged the API to identify and address orphaned or unclaimed resources, enabling their efficient reassignment or decommissioning.
• Created and updated comprehensive documentation for various repositories and processes, fostering knowledge sharing and empowering teams to work more autonomously and efficiently.
• Advocated for best practices in unit testing, mentoring team members to adopt a test-driven development approach and significantly improving code coverage across multiple projects.

Collaboratively contributed to the success of projects focused on passwordless authentication and AAMVA driver's license verification as part of a dynamic team. Key accomplishments include:

• Played a pivotal role in implementing seamless OIDC integration for passkey authentication, enhancing the user experience for site owners.

• Actively contributed to the project on driver's license scanning for age verification, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and bolstering security measures.

• Worked closely with team members to deliver tangible outcomes, including increased operational efficiency and the implementation of precise metrics for login processes.

• Recognized for a collaborative and results-oriented approach, consistently achieving project goals and surpassing expectations.

Specialized in test engineering, monitoring, enterprise support, and development, gaining a deep understanding of system dynamics. This diverse expertise enhances my coding, ensuring smooth system interaction and a nuanced grasp of various deployment environments. My adaptable background highlights proficiency across technology and business operations.

• Improved efficiency of monitoring department by creating systems that monitored the state a cluster of Nagios servers and tooling that improved the response time of the monitoring team .

• Maintained and extended the billing system, including integration with our provisioning system for vps and storage products and affiliate program.

• Contributed to the development of a WordPress-as-a-service product. Key responsibilities included designing and implementing a portal for site configuration management, creating and restoring backups, and automating WordPress and plugin updates. Additionally, pioneered the development of a system enabling visual comparisons of sites during the update process, enhancing the user experience and overall efficiency of the platform.