John Mitsch

John Mitsch

Software Engineer

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About Me

I am a Software Engineer who used to bake bread for a living. I love to create things and I'm always learning something new. When I am not coding, I can be found running, cooking, or backpacking.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Red Hat (2015 - Present)

  • Designs and leads implementation of features, collaborating across a global team using agile methodologies.
  • Core contributor to the open source infrastructure management project Katello, an upstream component of Red Hat Satellite.
  • Assists Fortune 500 customers with architecture, design, and troubleshooting of their Red Hat Satellite infrastructure.
  • Creator and owner of Satellite Clone, a collection of Ansible playbooks to clone a Red Hat Satellite environment.
  • Represented Red Hat Satellite at Red Hat Summit 2019, leading a team that ran lab sessions demoing the latest Satellite version to current and prospective customers.
  • Created and maintain backup, restore, and hostname change utilities to help users configure and maintain their Satellite environments.
  • Made significant back-end changes to assist with distributed proxy content syncing.
  • Introduced the concept of AppStreams into Satellite, which is a way Red Hat Enterprise Linux manages multiple versions of the same RPM package on a system.
  • Rewrote a major page in React and a newer version of Patternfly (Red Hat UI library).

Teaching Assistant - UNC coding bootcamp (May 2017 - Nov 2017)

  • Assists students in navigating a six month intensive coding bootcamp specializing in Node.js, MongoDB, ReactJS, and Express.js

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Basic Information

Most Comfortable Technologies

Ruby on Rails

React

Node.js

AngularJS (1,2+)

Python & Django

Education

Individual Classes

Bradfield School of Computer Science, Remote (2019-Present)

Python Engineering Track

The Iron Yard Code School, Durham, NC (2015)

Grand Diploma of Italian Cuisine

The International Culinary Center, NYC (2013)

BS Hospitality Management

Texas Tech University (2008-2012)

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