About

John Raber is an innovative and passionate leader with over two decades of technical expertise. Collaborating with stakeholders to develop technology roadmaps, designing and implementing software systems and products that achieve business goals. John has consulted for both Oracle and Redhat, designed and built products for DataStax, GE, PayPal, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, and Harris Corp as well as launched a start-up, Campusly, with 2 other co-founders. The diversity of the roles John has filled allows him understand the different perspectives and nuances that investors, founders, product owners, direct employees, and consultants often work from.

Recently, John partnered with DataStax’s engineering leadership team. John was able to provide network, security, and observability architectures on both GCP and AWS to support secure, performant, and cost optimized solutions for new global networks. This allowed DataStax’s to ensure their products were SOC 2, PCI, and NIST compliant. John revamped the continuous deployment (CD of CI/CD) workflows to account for products to be the deployment unit for the Kubernetes deployments. Lastly, John introduced a deterministic configuration management strategy using GitOps for both engineering and operations. This configuration management strategy is used for both infrastructure provisioning, managed service provisioning, and the configuration used by AstraDB which is DataStax’s database as a service product.

Prior to that, John developed a satellite simulation analysis product over 2.5 years for Questiny Engineering Group Inc. and several US military organizations. This work encompassed 3D user interfaces, a services platform, and multiple databases. This complex product was a private cloud deployment accessible via the browser and provided data visualization of world-wide satellite resource simulations with a heavy emphasis on animated geospatial data, advanced charting and maps.

At Paypal, John transformed how products evolved using metrics via a self-service visual analytics platform. John built a team from scratch and created a visual analytics product at PayPal under the alloted time schedule and personnel costs. This product eliminated large recurring licensing cost and enabled data ownership which ignited the transformation for product evolvement there. The polished product was delivered in 10 months, from concept to implementation, and has feature parity with the external market leading product it’s replacing. John introduced the MEAN stack along with visualization libraries such as D3/NVD3 for analytics infrastructure while at PayPal and was able to teach the staff as well as deliver a successful product.

John’s diverse work in startups, R&D, product companies, and professional services across many verticles has given him a breadth and depth in both technology and business tactics & strategy that is formidable. You can view more background via https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnraber/ .