John Allspaw

John Allspaw

Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Technical Advisor at Etsy
  • Engineering Manager, Operations at Flickr (Yahoo!)
Past
  • Infrastructure Architect at Friendster, Inc.
  • Consultant at Allspaw Systems Consulting
  • Senior Systems Engineer at Salon.com

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Education
  • Tufts University
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Industry
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John Allspaw’s Summary

Web operations manager and engineer with 12 years of systems engineering experience. Building web operations teams and capacity planning for large-scale infrastructure projects. Data center operations, high availability, disaster recovery and general Business Continuity Planning. Capital expenditure budget management and technical project planning and delivery.

Author, "The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources"

John Allspaw’s Specialties:

• Capacity and infrastructure planning and deployment
• Web operations engineering
• 24x7 mission-critical
• Infrastructure (systems, network) architectures
• Engineering menagement, mentoring and leadership
• Making things go


John Allspaw’s Education

  • Tufts University

    MS , Mechanical Engineering , 19971998

    A few graduate-level classes which convinced me that Mechanical Engineering isn't what I want my master's degree to be.

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    BS , Mechanical Engineering , 19891996


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