John McBride

John McBride has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. John started their career as a Registered Nurse at Mayo Clinic from 2014 to 2016, before moving to UCHealth as an ICU Step-Down Registered Nurse from 2016 to 2018. McBride then transitioned into the field of software engineering, working as an Engineering Teaching Assistant at Oregon State University in 2017, where they assisted students in designing low level systems and programming.

In 2018, McBride joined Compassion International as a Software Engineer, contributing to the design and development of micro-services and automated solutions for financial transactions. John also interned at Compassion International, where they developed JavaScript micro-services and actively participated in designing and deploying enterprise credit card software.

McBride further advanced their software engineering career at Pivotal Software, Inc., where they specialized in Cloud Foundry as a Software Engineer from 2019 to 2020. Subsequently, they joined VMware Tanzu in 2020 as a Member Of Technical Staff, progressing to the roles of Senior Member Of Technical Staff and contributing significantly to the conceptualization, design, and implementation of VMware's open-source Kubernetes platform, Tanzu Community Edition. John actively engaged with the open-source community, making contributions to upstream Kubernetes and Cloud Native projects.

In 2022, McBride joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Software Development Engineer before transitioning to their current role as a Senior Engineer at OpenSauced in 2023.

John McBride obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University, where they studied from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, they completed a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) at South Dakota State University from 2010 to 2014. Currently, they are pursuing further education at the Georgia Institute of Technology, starting in 2022. In addition to their formal education, John has obtained various certifications including "Speaker: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022" from The Linux Foundation in May 2022, "Certified SAFe® 4 Practitioner" from Scaled Agile, Inc. in June 2018, "D3.js Essential Training for Data Scientists," "HTML Essential Training," and "JavaScript Essential Training" from Lynda.com in 2017 and 2016 respectively. John also holds certifications in "Advanced Cardiac Life Support" and "Basic Life Support" from the American Heart Association | American Stroke Association, although the specific obtained months and years are not provided.