John Allspaw
Consultant / Advisor at Primary Venture Management LLC
Profile
John is a Technical Advisor at Primary and provides ad-hoc technical mentorship and insights to the portfolio’s founders.
He is the former CTO of Etsy and has worked in software systems engineering and operations for over 20 years in a wide variety of environments.
John holds an MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety from Lund University.
Notable publications include The Art of Capacity Planning (2009), Web Operations (2010), “The DevOps Handbook” along with his 2009 Velocity talk with Paul Hammond, and “10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation,” which helped start the DevOps movement.
John Allspaw active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Primary Venture Management LLC
 Primary Venture Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Primary Venture Management LLC (Primary Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Ben Sun and Brad Svrluga. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Consultant / Advisor | 2018-05-31 |
Former positions of John Allspaw
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
| ETSY, INC. | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | 2017-05-01 |
Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.
 Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. operates an online photo sharing website - Flickr. It provides online digital photo management services that allow users to store, search, sort, and share pictures from digital cameras or camera phones. The company was founded by Stewart Butterfield in 2002 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Chief Tech/Sci/R&D Officer | 2013-04-08 |
| salon.com | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of John Allspaw
| University of Massachusetts | Undergraduate Degree |
| University of Lund | Graduate Degree |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Undergraduate Degree |
| Tufts University | Graduate Degree |
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| Listed companies | 1 |
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| ETSY, INC. | Retail Trade |
| Private companies | 3 |
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Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd.
Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Ludicorp Research & Development Ltd. operates an online photo sharing website - Flickr. It provides online digital photo management services that allow users to store, search, sort, and share pictures from digital cameras or camera phones. The company was founded by Stewart Butterfield in 2002 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. | Technology Services |
| salon.com | Commercial Services |
Primary Venture Management LLC
Primary Venture Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Primary Venture Management LLC (Primary Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Ben Sun and Brad Svrluga. The firm is headquartered in New York. | Finance |
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