# John Blackwell > Helping to streamline Kubernetes at scale @ Plural Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/johnblackwell ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Plural Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Treno Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Idea Evolver Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States Designed and developed HIPAA-compliant microservices to build a novel Software as a Medical Device (SAMD) Managed deployments using Kubernetes and Helm on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring scalability and high availability for enterprise clients. ### Software Engineer @ Novetta Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area ### Software Engineering Intern @ Fidelity Investments Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area ### Research Assistant @ UNC Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 • Wrote agent-based models for social sorting • Implemented algorithm to simulate clustering affect of agents interacting in a grid • Wrote GUI using open-sourced pycxsimulator module built on Tkinter module ### IT Consultant @ UNC Computer Science Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 • Reimaged computers with Ubuntu, Windows 7/10 and deployed prior to start of school year • Maintained network/DNS tables ### Tier 1 Technical Support Agent @ AT&T Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area • Team-based technical problem-solving for enterprise software products • Managed multiple demands to create solution for the customer ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-blackwell-69644b48 --- Source: https://flows.cv/johnblackwell JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/johnblackwell/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01