Jake Klein
Senior Software Engineer at Syntasso
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Klein is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building cloud-native backend and DevOps tooling. He currently contributes at Syntasso after roles at Weaveworks, Pivotal/VMware and early-stage startups, bringing production expertise across Kubernetes and AWS. An active open-source contributor, he improved the widely used eksctl CLI by adding SSM-based SSH support and better failed nodegroup handling, demonstrating a focus on operational reliability and developer experience. He holds a First Class BSc in Computer Science from Royal Holloway and combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on infrastructure engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex cloud workflows into pragmatic automation that reduces operational toil.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Royal Holloway, University of London
English
Github Skills (7)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
aws10
devops10
kubernetes-pod10
go9
ci-cd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eksctl-io/eksctl
Oct 2020 - May 2022
The official CLI for Amazon EKS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1125 reviews, 184 commits, 691 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the eksctl CLI for Amazon EKS. They implemented a new flag to enable Simple System Manager (SSM) for easier SSH access, adding functionality to the core CLI. Furthermore, they improved the handling of failed nodegroups, refactoring existing logic to use stack status. Their contributions demonstrate an understanding of backend development, AWS infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
aws-cloudformationkubernetes-deploymentamazon-eksamazoneks
weaveworks/pctl-test-repo
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Test repository for weaveworks/pctl
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 395 pushes in 5 months
test-repository
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