Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Engineering Manager, Operations at Flickr (Yahoo!)
- Past
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- Infrastructure Architect at Friendster, Inc.
- Consultant at Allspaw Systems Consulting
- Senior Systems Engineer at Salon.com
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- Education
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- Tufts University
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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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.
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
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Tufts University
MS, Mechanical Engineering, 1997 — 1998
A few graduate-level classes which convinced me that Mechanical Engineering isn't what I want my master's degree to be.
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University of Massachusetts at Amherst
BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1989 — 1996
