Jack Neely
Staff Observability Engineer at Jack Henry
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Neely is an experienced observability and DevOps leader with 12 years of hands-on experience turning operational chaos into data-driven advantage. As owner of Cardinality Cloud and former Sr. Principal DevOps Observability Architect at Palo Alto Networks, he has led observability strategy for large-scale cloud security products and built distributed monitoring platforms that ingest millions of samples per second. His career traces deep systems expertise from university-scale Linux deployments and Beowulf clusters to engineering high-throughput metric pipelines using Prometheus, Thanos, Graphite and custom Go tooling. He has contributed practical patches upstream—fixing Prometheus histogram behavior, improving Graphite performance, and authoring open-source stats relays—demonstrating a blend of production-scale architecture and low-level codecraft. Based in Raleigh, NC, Jack pairs consultative CTO leadership with the ability to implement the plumbing that makes observability actionable across hundreds of teams. A detail not obvious from titles: he routinely bridges academic-scale cluster work and enterprise cloud security, enabling reliable telemetry at both extremes of scale.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (113)
timeseries-database10
statsd10
high-availability10
aws-s310
monitoring10
django10
whisper10
graphite10
swift10
graphing10
consistent-hashing10
observability10
storage10
go10
prometheus10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jjneely/am-event-handler
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 23 pushes in 7 months
prometheus-exporterprometheusmetricshandlerevent-handler
jjneely/buckytools
Jan 2015 - Aug 2020
Go implementation of useful tools for dealing with Graphite's Whisper DBs and Carbon hashing
Contributions:2 releases, 255 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 7 months
gowhisper
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