Edwin Jacques
Sterling, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolEdwin Jacques is a Principal Software Engineer based in Sterling, MA, with two decades of experience building high-performance network automation, storage management, and telecommunications software using Go, C++, Python and related ecosystems. He blends deep systems-level coding with DevOps leadership—running CI/CD at scale, migrating large C++ codebases to modern builds like Bazel, and reducing build times and developer friction across hundreds of engineers. In recent years he’s focused on cloud-native networking and Kubernetes-driven SDN, authoring Ansible collections, contributing test automation tooling, and instrumenting distributed systems with OpenTelemetry. A certified Scrum Master and seasoned mentor, he champions TDD, developer advocacy, and design-for-testability to make complex systems maintainable and auditable. Notably, he published the juniper-pytest OSS framework and Argo enhancements, showing a commitment to practical open-source improvements that advance automated network testing and deployment.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (103)
high-availability10
http-client10
rest-client10
k8s10
bare-metal10
kubernetes-cluster10
kustomize10
continuous-delivery10
api10
rest10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
continuous-deployment10
packagecloud10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/juniper-pytest
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Juniper Pytest is an automation developer's toolkit. It provides everything an automation developer might need to automate configuration and validation of Juniper network equipment with Python and Ansible.
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
netmikoeverythingpythonvalidationnetwork-automation
edwinpjacques/contrail-common
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
Shared repo for common code such as schema, UVEs, libs, etc
Contributions:1 PR, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
javalibs
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