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John Bowser

Engineering Lead at SkyKick

John Bowser has extensive experience in software build engineering and DevOps roles. John began their career at Microsoft in 1998, where they served as a Software Build Engineer Lead, managing a team that supported various product teams. John played a crucial role in driving availability and quality improvements through datacenter migration and standardization of build server deployments.

After leaving Microsoft, Bowser joined Insight Global as a Software Build Engineer, administering and supporting distributed continuous integration build services for the Azure Group engineering services team. John also deployed and managed virtual machines within the Azure cloud.

Bowser then moved on to Mozato as a DevOps Lead, where they enabled continuous integration and established branch strategies and policies for parallel releases and feature development. John set up automated builds in TFS Team Build and facilitated frequent testing and continual feedback of changes.

Following their time at Mozato, Bowser joined Inspur Worldwide Services as a Software Build Engineer. John administered distributed continuous integration build services and maintained the reliability of build systems. John also set up and maintained build configurations and scheduling.

Most recently, Bowser worked at SkyKick, first as a Sr Build Engineer and later as an Engineering Lead. The specific details of their roles at SkyKick are not provided in the information given.

John Bowser has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial/Scientific Photography from Brooks Institute. John also holds an Associate of Arts degree from Green River College. In addition, they attained the ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management from EXIN in May 2013.

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Timeline

  • Engineering Lead

    June, 2019 - present

  • Sr Build Engineer

    August, 2017