John Sanda

John Sanda has over 17 years of experience in the software engineering industry. John currently works at DataStax as a Software Engineer and tech lead on K8ssandra, an open source project that provides a Kubernetes-based distribution of Apache Cassandra. John has been involved with the project since its inception, actively developing and maintaining Helm charts and various operators.

Prior to joining DataStax, John worked at The Last Pickle as a Consultant, where they assisted clients in building and maintaining Cassandra-based systems. John also provided support for schema design, troubleshooting performance issues, and implementing custom code.

Before that, John worked at Red Hat as a Senior Software Engineer. John contributed to various projects, including the development of a Functions as a Service platform using the Knative project and providing support and maintenance for Hawkular Metrics, a scalable metrics storage engine built on Apache Cassandra.

John's earlier experience includes roles at Care First, Chesapeake System Solutions, and Canton Group, where they gained expertise in web development and software engineering.

Overall, John's work experience demonstrates their strong technical skills in building and maintaining Cassandra-based systems and their expertise in Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra technologies.

John Sanda earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Science from Clemson University, where they studied from 2001 to 2003. In addition to their educational background, they obtained the CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) certification from The Linux Foundation in April 2021.