John Finnegan. 12+ years in cloud platforms, DevOps, and MLOps; current role at IBM as Staff Engineer (02/2022–10/2025). Based in San Antonio, TX. Strong Python/Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLOps pipelines, and enterprise-grade AI governance. Open to new opportunities with immediate start. Salary expectation: 140000. Email: _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Phone:_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-finnegan-6612b63a5/

John Finnegan

John Finnegan. 12+ years in cloud platforms, DevOps, and MLOps; current role at IBM as Staff Engineer (02/2022–10/2025). Based in San Antonio, TX. Strong Python/Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLOps pipelines, and enterprise-grade AI governance. Open to new opportunities with immediate start. Salary expectation: 140000. Email: _Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Phone:_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-finnegan-6612b63a5/

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John Finnegan. 12+ years in cloud platforms, DevOps, and MLOps; current role at IBM as Staff Engineer (02/2022–10/2025). Based in San Antonio, TX. Strong Python/Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLOps pipelines, and enterprise-grade AI governance. Open to new opportunities with immediate start. Salary expectation: 140000. Email: Email not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup Phone:Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/john-finnegan-6612b63a5/

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Work Experience

Staff Engineer at IBM
February 2, 2022 - October 2, 2025
Led as a technical owner for enterprise AI features within the x.ai feature set; designed and guided AI/ML model lifecycles, governance, experimentation tracking, and scalable inference; mentored engineers; collaborated with security and governance teams; contributed to architecture reviews and long-term reliability improvements.
Solutions Architect at Rackspace Technology
July 1, 2015 - December 1, 2021
Served as a technical owner for multiple customer-facing architecture engagements; translated business requirements into scalable, enterprise AI-capable cloud architectures; partnered with product management, research, and governance teams to deliver end-to-end ML/AI capabilities; built ML pipelines and data platforms; led containerized training/inference, CI/CD, model governance, and cross-tenant isolation.
Junior Software Engineer at Rackspace Technology
July 1, 2013 - June 1, 2015
Developed and maintained backend services and internal tools using Python and JavaScript; implemented RESTful APIs and supported customer-facing platforms and internal workflows; collaborated with SREs and product teams to improve scalability and reliability.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
September 1, 2009 - July 1, 2013

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Software & Internet, Professional Services