John Dietz
CEO of Konstruct | Director, Civo
Platform Engineering Paladin
STATS
Strength: Leadership, carrying organizational weight, resilience
Intelligence: Architecture, problem-solving, technical depth
Charisma: Public speaking, podcasts, community building
Wisdom: Strategic thinking, pattern recognition, experience
Dexterity: Context switching, shipping fast, adaptability
ACTIVE QUEST
Konstruct at Civo
Civo Cloud
Leading Konstruct as CEO while serving as Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions at Civo. Building a platform engineering solution for managing cloud accounts, GitOps infrastructure, and platform tools. Launching Colony for bare metal Kubernetes. Continuing the mission to democratize cloud-native adoption.
CORE SKILLS
View All →RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
View All →Two Successful Exits
Completed two successful acquisitions: Kubefirst acquired by Kubeshop in 2022, then Kubeshop acquired by Civo in 2024
Serial Entrepreneur
Bootstrapped Integrity Test Solutions at age 22 and ran it for 19 years before co-founding Kubefirst/Konstruct
Open Source Pioneer
Launched Kubefirst as an open source project, now featured on the CNCF landscape with active community adoption
First Commit
Made the first commit to the Kubefirst repository, starting the journey to democratize platform engineering