# John Kotz

> Software Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnkotz

Github: jk47  
Twitter: johnkotz

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ New Relic, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present

### Software Engineering Manager | SmartThings @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

### Staff Software Engineer | SmartThings @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Working on a team supporting the event pipeline within the SmartThings ecosystem. Using Kafka, JVM based microservices, DynamoDB.

### Senior Software Engineer | SmartThings @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Implementing JVM based services - responsible for provisioning infra (AWS/Terraform), coding (Ratpack/Dropwizard/Spring, Groovy/Java/Kotlin), persistence (Cassandra, Aurora, DynamoDB), testing (Spock/Gatling/Mockito), deploying (Spinnaker), and monitoring/on-call rotations (Datadog/SumoLogic).

### Software Engineer | SmartThings @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Minneapolis, Minnesota

### Software Engineer @ Target
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Minneapolis, Minnesota
Backend: Java (Spring Boot Microservices), MongoDB, Postgres
Frontend:  React, Redux, Angular, Protractor, Gulp, Karma
Devops: Jenkins, Drone, Github, Docker, Kubernetes

### Programmer/Analyst @ Associated Financial Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Microsoft Stack: C#, SSIS, SSRS, SQL Server, VB.Net, Octopus Deploy

### Senior Software Engineer @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Eagan, MN
C#, IIS, REST, SQL Server

### Software Engineer in Test @ Thomson Reuters
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Eagan, MN

### Software Engineer Intern @ Maverick Software Consulting
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
University of Minnesota
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### BS in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnkotz

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Last updated: 2026-03-22