J Telan
Co-Founder at Figbee Labs
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJ Telan is a DevOps-minded software engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience building production automation and CI/CD pipelines for on-prem and cloud environments. He blends hands-on Rust and Python development—contributing to projects like the Fluvio streaming system—with production engineering that spans Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and large private datacenter rollouts. Known for translating vague requirements into actionable goals, he has improved test and deploy reliability for Fortune 500 customers and industrial-scale systems (including deployments on cruise ships). As a technologist and educator based in Seattle, he runs a tech blog and live coding studio, advocating for communication-first automation because, as he puts it, people weren’t made to push buttons.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Electronics Engineering Technology + Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Electronics Engineering Technology + Computer Science at Western Washington University
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Github Skills (21)
testing10
command-line-interface10
cicd10
command-line10
rust10
cli10
github-ci9
test-automation9
githubaction-workflow9
stream-processing8
distributed-systems8
webassembly7
macos6
miniconda6
yaml6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
infinyon/fluvio
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Lean and mean distributed stream processing system written in rust and web assembly. Alternative to Kafka + Flink in one.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:155 reviews, 169 commits, 201 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:J primarily contributed to improving the Fluvio CLI and integration testing infrastructure. They added functionality to the `fluvio version` command, calculating and displaying the SHA256 hash of the CLI binary. The user refactored integration test setup and cleanup procedures, which included restructuring test cases and adding support for test-specific CLI arguments. Moreover, they introduced test reporting features such as timeouts and test result display, making CI tests more robust.
real-timeevent-streaminganalyticsstream-processingstreaming-data
tjtelan/git-meta-rs
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 15 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
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