Jacob Delgado
Principal Engineer at Cisco
Grove City, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Delgado is a Principal Engineer with 7 years of modern software experience and a long background in networking and technical leadership, now based in Peoria, Arizona. He blends backend development, DevOps, and security expertise—demonstrated by sustained contributions to the high-profile Istio ecosystem where he improved CI/CD, hardened authentication/authorization, and fixed certificate and telemetry issues. At Splunk he progressed into senior engineering and principal roles, building on prior leadership at SnapAttack® and Booz Allen where he led engineering teams and technical services. Comfortable across build systems, Go tooling, and service mesh internals, he often focuses on making complex distributed systems more reliable and observable. A practical systems thinker with roots in network administration, he brings both hands-on implementation and process improvements to production infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Adminisration, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Adminisration at University of Northwestern OhioInformation Technology, Information Technology at Sinclair Community College
Github Skills (44)
dependency-management10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
authorizations10
docker10
api-design10
scripting10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
it-security10
user-authentication10
authentication10
bash10
proxy10
dockers10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
istio/test-infra
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:293 reviews, 28 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on maintaining and improving the continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure for the `istio/test-infra` repository. Their commits involved modifying build configurations, updating scripts, and integrating new features to streamline the automated testing and release processes. This includes changes related to job configurations, service accounts, and build tools, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the testing pipeline. Furthermore, the user worked on addressing issues related to long job names and optimizing configuration generation.
istio/istio.io
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
Source for the istio.io site
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Technical Writer
DevOps Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:318 reviews, 81 commits, 123 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's primary contributions center around automating and improving the Istio documentation site. They implemented automated tests for Helm installation, ensuring the website's guides and installation instructions are accurate. Additionally, they focused on streamlining and improving existing snippets and documentation, and fixing any related linting issues. Furthermore, the user's work involved integrating new documentation content about security hardening based on known vulnerabilities.
istiomicroservices-architecture
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