John Reardon
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Neelesh Agrawal
John and I have crossed path few times in our career, it is always a pleasure to work with him. As a technical team lead at F5, he created a fun environment for to work – while team was going through difficult Agile transformation. Through his leadership-by-example, the team grew closer and collaborative. He multi-tasked between helping junior engineers, deliver on his tasks and keeping track of progress as a scrum-master. John is an excellent communicator and a great asset for team and customer demos. He brings vast experience and zeal to learn new technology to the table. Yet, he is humble to heed other ideas and patient to facilitate productive discussions.
Erik Synnestvedt
It has been my pleasure to have worked with John on my team at F5 for many years. John is both an accomplished leader and a self-directing individual contributor. During the past year John effectively led a newly combined dev/test team through a challenging transition to Agile development practices. Throughout this transition, the team delivered customer value with good quality while also stretching their capacity. In collaboration with the product owner, the team, through its own initiative, identified and delivered against multiple customer-specific requests. These achievements have had a real impact on customer perception and generated good will. Thank you John for your role in these accomplishments.
Neelesh Agrawal
John and I have crossed path few times in our career, it is always a pleasure to work with him. As a technical team lead at F5, he created a fun environment for to work – while team was going through difficult Agile transformation. Through his leadership-by-example, the team grew closer and collaborative. He multi-tasked between helping junior engineers, deliver on his tasks and keeping track of progress as a scrum-master. John is an excellent communicator and a great asset for team and customer demos. He brings vast experience and zeal to learn new technology to the table. Yet, he is humble to heed other ideas and patient to facilitate productive discussions.
Erik Synnestvedt
It has been my pleasure to have worked with John on my team at F5 for many years. John is both an accomplished leader and a self-directing individual contributor. During the past year John effectively led a newly combined dev/test team through a challenging transition to Agile development practices. Throughout this transition, the team delivered customer value with good quality while also stretching their capacity. In collaboration with the product owner, the team, through its own initiative, identified and delivered against multiple customer-specific requests. These achievements have had a real impact on customer perception and generated good will. Thank you John for your role in these accomplishments.
Neelesh Agrawal
John and I have crossed path few times in our career, it is always a pleasure to work with him. As a technical team lead at F5, he created a fun environment for to work – while team was going through difficult Agile transformation. Through his leadership-by-example, the team grew closer and collaborative. He multi-tasked between helping junior engineers, deliver on his tasks and keeping track of progress as a scrum-master. John is an excellent communicator and a great asset for team and customer demos. He brings vast experience and zeal to learn new technology to the table. Yet, he is humble to heed other ideas and patient to facilitate productive discussions.
Erik Synnestvedt
It has been my pleasure to have worked with John on my team at F5 for many years. John is both an accomplished leader and a self-directing individual contributor. During the past year John effectively led a newly combined dev/test team through a challenging transition to Agile development practices. Throughout this transition, the team delivered customer value with good quality while also stretching their capacity. In collaboration with the product owner, the team, through its own initiative, identified and delivered against multiple customer-specific requests. These achievements have had a real impact on customer perception and generated good will. Thank you John for your role in these accomplishments.
Neelesh Agrawal
John and I have crossed path few times in our career, it is always a pleasure to work with him. As a technical team lead at F5, he created a fun environment for to work – while team was going through difficult Agile transformation. Through his leadership-by-example, the team grew closer and collaborative. He multi-tasked between helping junior engineers, deliver on his tasks and keeping track of progress as a scrum-master. John is an excellent communicator and a great asset for team and customer demos. He brings vast experience and zeal to learn new technology to the table. Yet, he is humble to heed other ideas and patient to facilitate productive discussions.
Erik Synnestvedt
It has been my pleasure to have worked with John on my team at F5 for many years. John is both an accomplished leader and a self-directing individual contributor. During the past year John effectively led a newly combined dev/test team through a challenging transition to Agile development practices. Throughout this transition, the team delivered customer value with good quality while also stretching their capacity. In collaboration with the product owner, the team, through its own initiative, identified and delivered against multiple customer-specific requests. These achievements have had a real impact on customer perception and generated good will. Thank you John for your role in these accomplishments.
Experience
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Wyebot
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Engineer
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Jan 2023 - Present
Working on a cool product that is helping lots of customers to better manage their wireless networks. Working on a cool product that is helping lots of customers to better manage their wireless networks.
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Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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SDE at Amazon Robotics
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Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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SDE
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Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
Worked on team to add a new security service to AWS. "AWS Detective" ingests customer data from a variety of sources to build a graph that gives insights to customers around any security incidents in their AWS accounts. Led the effort to provide internal monitoring and alarming to all the components in the "Detective" solution, worked with all internal teams to develop requirements, design solution, and implement. As part of these efforts, developed Operational Excellence for the new service… Show more Worked on team to add a new security service to AWS. "AWS Detective" ingests customer data from a variety of sources to build a graph that gives insights to customers around any security incidents in their AWS accounts. Led the effort to provide internal monitoring and alarming to all the components in the "Detective" solution, worked with all internal teams to develop requirements, design solution, and implement. As part of these efforts, developed Operational Excellence for the new service using CloudWatch, CloudFormation, as well as many internal AWS tools. Show less Worked on team to add a new security service to AWS. "AWS Detective" ingests customer data from a variety of sources to build a graph that gives insights to customers around any security incidents in their AWS accounts. Led the effort to provide internal monitoring and alarming to all the components in the "Detective" solution, worked with all internal teams to develop requirements, design solution, and implement. As part of these efforts, developed Operational Excellence for the new service… Show more Worked on team to add a new security service to AWS. "AWS Detective" ingests customer data from a variety of sources to build a graph that gives insights to customers around any security incidents in their AWS accounts. Led the effort to provide internal monitoring and alarming to all the components in the "Detective" solution, worked with all internal teams to develop requirements, design solution, and implement. As part of these efforts, developed Operational Excellence for the new service using CloudWatch, CloudFormation, as well as many internal AWS tools. Show less
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F5
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Software Engineer
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Jan 2011 - Oct 2018
I was team lead for one of the handful of teams working on the BIG-IQ centralized management product. This was a new product created to manage multiple F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers. It runs on CentOS using a microservices architecture as a multi-user Java back-end using a REST/Json API with MongoDB storage. - Helped to convert the whole product team to Agile. As scrum master, wrote stories, coordinated with product owner, gave feature demos, sprint planning, retrospectives… Show more I was team lead for one of the handful of teams working on the BIG-IQ centralized management product. This was a new product created to manage multiple F5 BIG-IP application delivery controllers. It runs on CentOS using a microservices architecture as a multi-user Java back-end using a REST/Json API with MongoDB storage. - Helped to convert the whole product team to Agile. As scrum master, wrote stories, coordinated with product owner, gave feature demos, sprint planning, retrospectives to enable the organization to increase release cadence and improve product quality. - Designed, implemented, tested Java backend software to manage discrete configuration objects as a single pane of glass across a network of F5 BIG-IP devices. Worked to improve product performance to the point that it could manage 500 devices. This enabled sales to 2 of the largest US-based ISPs. - Converted the product to MongoDB from Lucene for performance reasons. Worked on the home-grown Java framework to parse ODATA query parameters and use them to pass to MongoDB. Search is a critical low-level requirement in the product API. - Created a javascript framework for developers to use to upgrade raw objects stored in MongoDB from one product release to another. This enabled seamless product upgrades in customer environments. - Helped to transition the whole product team from perforce to git, define pipelines, help with tools (JaCoCo) to better understand code coverage. The entire development team now gets weekly code coverage reports as it has become an invaluable tool in assessing test coverage. I earned 2 "High Five" awards while at F5. These are peer-nominated awards given out to a select few people in the company for going above and beyond to support our customers.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Mar 2008 - Dec 2010
I ran the team that did the low-level NFS and CIFS high-speed networking stacks for the Acopia file virtualization switch (ARX). This software also formed the basis for the high-availability architecture that the ARX provided. These stacks ran on Broadcom chips running the uCOS operating system. - Led a large project to add the new SMBv2 protocol to this product. This went all the way from requirements to design to coordinating with the team on the control plane to writing and… Show more I ran the team that did the low-level NFS and CIFS high-speed networking stacks for the Acopia file virtualization switch (ARX). This software also formed the basis for the high-availability architecture that the ARX provided. These stacks ran on Broadcom chips running the uCOS operating system. - Led a large project to add the new SMBv2 protocol to this product. This went all the way from requirements to design to coordinating with the team on the control plane to writing and coordinating the implementation and delivery of the software. SMBv2 was a product requirement for several larger customers. This enabled many more enterprise sales. - After F5 acquired Acopia, I worked with a team of senior architects to port the software to run as a daemon in the F5 switch. This effort replaced μCOS with Linux as well as completely replaced packet memory with F5 abstractions. This was a critical step in replacing the Acopia hardware with F5 hardware, lowering cost-of-goods, and making the organization more efficient.
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Senior Consultant
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Sep 2004 - Mar 2008
I was a consultant to a variety of companies. Specializing in computer networking, embedded systems, Linux. Highlights of some projects: - Worked with Acopia to provide a utility to allow customers to query historical locations of files on backend filers. This feature was demanded by customers to facility backup and restore workflows. Used XML, C, Berkeley DB - Helped a wireless sensor company move from a proprietary platform to an ARM-based Linux (Debian) platform. This provided a… Show more I was a consultant to a variety of companies. Specializing in computer networking, embedded systems, Linux. Highlights of some projects: - Worked with Acopia to provide a utility to allow customers to query historical locations of files on backend filers. This feature was demanded by customers to facility backup and restore workflows. Used XML, C, Berkeley DB - Helped a wireless sensor company move from a proprietary platform to an ARM-based Linux (Debian) platform. This provided a more stable platform and release mechanism. - Wrote a custom SD/MMC driver for an embedded Linux-based OS enabling the customer to use faster, off-the-shelf storage in their product. Show less I was a consultant to a variety of companies. Specializing in computer networking, embedded systems, Linux. Highlights of some projects: - Worked with Acopia to provide a utility to allow customers to query historical locations of files on backend filers. This feature was demanded by customers to facility backup and restore workflows. Used XML, C, Berkeley DB - Helped a wireless sensor company move from a proprietary platform to an ARM-based Linux (Debian) platform. This provided a… Show more I was a consultant to a variety of companies. Specializing in computer networking, embedded systems, Linux. Highlights of some projects: - Worked with Acopia to provide a utility to allow customers to query historical locations of files on backend filers. This feature was demanded by customers to facility backup and restore workflows. Used XML, C, Berkeley DB - Helped a wireless sensor company move from a proprietary platform to an ARM-based Linux (Debian) platform. This provided a more stable platform and release mechanism. - Wrote a custom SD/MMC driver for an embedded Linux-based OS enabling the customer to use faster, off-the-shelf storage in their product. Show less
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Gold Wire Technology
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal Engineer
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1999 - 2004
I joined as 12th employee. Designed and implemented a large part of the C++ framework for the flagship product, Formulator. This product provided ISPs and Fortune 1000 customers with the ability to verify, archive, audit, deploy, and control access to configurations for all of their networking devices in a vendor-agnostic way. I joined as 12th employee. Designed and implemented a large part of the C++ framework for the flagship product, Formulator. This product provided ISPs and Fortune 1000 customers with the ability to verify, archive, audit, deploy, and control access to configurations for all of their networking devices in a vendor-agnostic way.
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Founder and VP of Engineering
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Aug 1992 - Aug 1999
I worked with a team of 3 other founders to develop a business plan and start a self-funded data networking company focused on the network testing market. Grew the company from zero to $2M/yr with constant profitability. Acquired in 1996 by Teradyne. Continued to work with Teradyne executives for several years to grow the company. Midnight’s flagship product, ANVL, is still sold today by IXIA. Subject of case study at Harvard Business School, “Midnight Networks Inc”, Jun 11, 1998, which… Show more I worked with a team of 3 other founders to develop a business plan and start a self-funded data networking company focused on the network testing market. Grew the company from zero to $2M/yr with constant profitability. Acquired in 1996 by Teradyne. Continued to work with Teradyne executives for several years to grow the company. Midnight’s flagship product, ANVL, is still sold today by IXIA. Subject of case study at Harvard Business School, “Midnight Networks Inc”, Jun 11, 1998, which examined our unique management practices. Show less I worked with a team of 3 other founders to develop a business plan and start a self-funded data networking company focused on the network testing market. Grew the company from zero to $2M/yr with constant profitability. Acquired in 1996 by Teradyne. Continued to work with Teradyne executives for several years to grow the company. Midnight’s flagship product, ANVL, is still sold today by IXIA. Subject of case study at Harvard Business School, “Midnight Networks Inc”, Jun 11, 1998, which… Show more I worked with a team of 3 other founders to develop a business plan and start a self-funded data networking company focused on the network testing market. Grew the company from zero to $2M/yr with constant profitability. Acquired in 1996 by Teradyne. Continued to work with Teradyne executives for several years to grow the company. Midnight’s flagship product, ANVL, is still sold today by IXIA. Subject of case study at Harvard Business School, “Midnight Networks Inc”, Jun 11, 1998, which examined our unique management practices. Show less
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Engineer
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1990 - 1992
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Education
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1986 - 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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