Jacob Emmert-aronson
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco
Emeryville, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Emmert-aronson is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of hands-on DevOps and cloud security experience, currently shaping the security posture and DevSecOps tooling for Cisco’s Webex Intelligence platform. He blends deep infrastructure automation—Terraform, Ansible, Puppet—with a developer-first approach that speeds safe deployments and lowers cloud costs. His contributions to notable open-source projects like Cisco’s MindMeld and systemd’s mkosi show practical improvements from conversational AI packaging to unprivileged QEMU networking and secure image builds. A former GSI at UC Berkeley with a strong quantitative background in physics, math, and CS, he’s comfortable translating complex systems into teachable practices and repeatable tooling. Colleagues rely on him to bridge Infosec and engineering, advocating secure development while keeping developer workflows productive.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Physics, Master's Degree, Physics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Physics, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Physics, Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (29)
build-time10
git10
python10
qemu10
buildx10
build-engine10
build210
mks10
version-control10
pip10
nlp10
dockers9
flask-ask9
docker9
automation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/mindmeld
Apr 2018 - Jun 2022
An Open Source Conversational AI Platform for Deep-Domain Voice Interfaces and Chatbots.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob made several contributions to the `mindmeld` conversational AI platform. They removed dependencies on internal pip APIs, and updated package versions, including bumping the minimum versions for `urllib3` and `requests`, and avoiding deprecated Flask versions. They also refactored code to host a copy of GloVe embeddings and modified the versioning.
nlpchatbotsdeep-learningconversationalconversational-ai
systemd/mkosi
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
💽 Build Bespoke OS Images
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focuses on improving the mkosi build and testing process. Their contributions include enhancing the QEMU environment setup by enabling user-mode networking, making it accessible to unprivileged users. Additionally, they streamlined configuration by correctly handling arguments in a key=value format. Further contributions involved the improvement of handling the command line arguments and password-related configurations, allowing for a secure build process.
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