John Allspaw
Co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs; former CTO of Etsy; writes on systems safety and web operations.
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- John Allspaw works on software operations, systems safety and human factors.
- He co-founded the consulting firm Adaptive Capacity Labs with Richard Cook and David Woods in 2017.
- Before that he was chief technology officer at Etsy, and he also worked at Flickr, Friendster, InfoWorld and Salon.
- He holds a master's degree in human factors and systems safety from Lund University and blogs at Kitchen Soap.
Key facts
- Adaptive Capacity Labs
- Co-founder, with Richard Cook and David Woods (founded 2017)2
- Before
- Chief technology officer at Etsy; earlier Flickr, Friendster, InfoWorld, Salon, Genentech and the Volpe National Transportation Center1
- Education
- Master's degree in human factors and systems safety, Lund University1
- Writes
- Kitchen Soap, on systems safety, software operations and sociotechnical systems1
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