Summary
Jacob Chesley is a Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud development, DevOps, and full-stack systems, currently at Workday after roles at Nike and HP. An honors Software Engineering graduate from Oregon Tech, he’s transitioned from intern and teaching-assistant roles into production-facing site reliability and DevOps positions, showing steady growth in operational engineering. He builds resilient, scalable services and automation that bridge developer workflows and cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience tuning reliability at consumer and enterprise scale. Jacob is driven by tackling technically challenging projects and continuously expanding his toolset across CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native patterns. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he brings practical engineering discipline informed by a background in both security-focused and reliability-critical environments. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who seeks out difficult problems rather than routine work, turning constraints into opportunities to learn.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 3.53, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, 3.53 at Oregon Institute of Technology