John Engelman is the Principal Engineer for Platform Services at Target in Minneapolis, MN. In this role, he oversees the developer experience on the Target Application Platform including the platform’s API and build/deployment tooling. Previously, John was the Chief Technologist for DevOps at Object Partners, a software consulting company, and a Software/Systems Engineer for Lockheed Martin. John is a core maintainer for the Ratpack project, the author of the Gradle Shadow plugin, and a regular contributor to open source projects including Terraform, Gradle, and Spinnaker.