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John Buchanan

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Senior Director, Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps at Aritzia
📍 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

John Buchanan is the Senior Director of Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps at Aritzia, bringing over 20 years of IT experience. He excels at leading large engineering teams and building massively scalable applications, with deep expertise in software development, integration, and cloud architecture.

He built lululemons integration engineering practice from inception to a 30-person department distributed across three distinct teams.

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Experience
24 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps
Job Level
Senior
Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Leading Engineering Teams
Has a proven track record of managing large teams and building an entire engineering practice at lululemon from the ground up.
Cloud & DevSecOps
His current and recent director-level roles at Aritzia and Levi Strauss & Co. are focused on Cloud Engineering, DevOps, and DevSecOps strategy.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Senior Director, Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps
Aritzia
1-2022 - 7-2023
Director, DevOps and Production Engineering
Levi Strauss & Co.
7-2021 - 1-2022
Senior Architect, Platform Engineering
Levi Strauss & Co.
4-2018 - 7-2021
Founder and Principal Consultant
Turnstone Technology Inc.
12-2017 - 3-2018
Director - Global Digital Technology
lululemon
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John Buchanan - Senior Director, Cloud Engineering & DevSecOps at Aritzia. Featured in TheOrg.com
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Education
2004 - 2010
BBA
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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