# John Vaught

> Senior Software Engineer at Iternal Technologies

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnvaught

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Iternal Technologies
Jan 2022 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
• Led the development, enhancement and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure, achieving robust and scalable services with strategic advancements in cloud computing and cost reduction.
• Designed machine learning workflows using NVIDIA's Triton Inference Server, enhancing the company's AI capabilities and service offerings.
• Incorporated AI solutions using the Milvus open-source vector database and ML embeddings to advance critical workflows in the software ecosystem.
• Designed and developed a fast and secure JWT management and exchange service in Rust, elevating the organization's zero-trust posture and streamlining authentication processes across all platforms.

### Software Engineer @ Iternal Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
• Led the development and maintenance of organizational wide infrastructure using Terraform (cdktf), enabling the ability to onboard customers into a secure single tenanted enterprise software ecosystem in under an hour.
• Established and managed the organization's Kubernetes clusters (EKS) for service orchestration, including operators such as nginx ingress controller, external-dns and cert-manager. 
• Spearheaded the development of CI/CD pipelines using GitOps (FluxCD) and GitHub Actions, enhancing developer productivity across the organization.
• Led a variety of full-stack features start to finish on backend systems in---Python (Django), Node (Express), Java (SpringBoot)---and frontends in React.

### Drone Field Engineer @ Pensa Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Tested and monitored autonomous ai-powered drones in the lab and in the field to ensure operational efficiency and safety.
• Designed and developed comprehensive business and data analytics solutions, including custom dashboards and toolsets using SQL.
• Managed field data collection teams across the United States - LA/OC, NYC, SF, DC, PHL, ATX.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Texas A&M University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bryan/College Station, Texas Area
• Conducted research under the guidance of Associate Professor Roozbeh Jafari and PhD Student Viswam Nathan at Texas A&M University.
• Focused on wearable computer design and signal processing.
• Contributed to the design of an innovative wearable blood pressure monitoring device.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Westlake High School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/john-vaught-8595758b

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Last updated: 2026-03-22