Jacek Becla
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Salesforce
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacek Becla is a seasoned technology leader with 21 years of experience designing and scaling data-intensive systems, currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Salesforce where he leads observability, data engineering, ML-driven analytics, automation and security for mission-critical backend databases. He has a track record of transforming organizations—having launched Teradata’s Technology & Innovation Office and led large, cross-institutional scientific data programs at Stanford and SLAC that handled petabyte- to exabyte-scale datasets. Equally comfortable at the C-suite table and in the codebase, he contributes to open-source backend projects like XRootD, fixing deep protocol and performance issues and building monitoring components. A pragmatic innovator, Jacek combines hands-on systems optimization with program-level strategy to move cloud-first architectures from proof-of-concept to production. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he balances technical rigor with people leadership and a history of delivering ahead of schedule and under budget.
21 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electronics Engineering, MSc Electronics Engineering at AGH University of Krakow
English, Polish
Github Skills (6)
debug10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
x10
performance-optimization9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xrootd/xrootd
Sep 2004 - May 2008
The XRootD central repository https://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=XRootD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jacek primarily focused on fixing bugs and optimizing the XRootD codebase. Their contributions involved correcting issues in the URL handling within the XrdClientUrlSet.cc file and optimizing string operations in the Xrdcp.cc file. Furthermore, the user addressed permission issues and implemented the initial version of XrdMon, indicating an involvement in monitoring and potentially back-end development for data management within the XRootD framework.
tarballxrootdstorageaixdistributed-file-system
lsst/db
Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
Lightweight database interface wrappers and abstraction layer for LSST Data Management code, currently limited to MySQL.
Contributions:166 commits, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 2 years 2 months
lsstdata-managementrdbmsmysqldatabase-access
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