Hi, I’m John Trimble — a machine learning engineer and tech lead.

With nearly two decades of experience, I’ve spent my career designing, developing, and scaling software systems. My journey here has included many phases: from shipping resilient backend systems, to architecting Kubernetes operators, to forecasting CPU usage from live production metrics. Along the way, I’ve built internal tools, contributed to open source (e.g. cass-operator), and engaged stakeholders across the board—product, customers, support, and multiple engineering disciplines—to align on goals and deliver results.

I currently lead autoscaling for Astra DB Serverless, where we create self-driving systems—powered by data, models, and automation—that monitor themselves, adapt to changing workloads, and scale to meet user needs.

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Background

• Current Role: Tech Lead, DataStax (Astra DB / Serverless Cassandra)
• Education: B.S. in Computer Science, University of Arizona
• Past Work: meltmedia, LivingSocial, academic research in OS kernel optimization
• Certifications: Deep Learning Specialization, GANs, ML Foundations

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Connect

• trimblej@gmail.com
• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• Bluesky
• johntrimble.com

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I’m keen to bring machine-learning innovations into production systems—if that sounds like your team’s challenge, let’s chat.