Jacob Fiola
Senior Software Engineer at Corelight
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Fiola is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience specializing in backend engineering and DevOps, focused on optimizing cloud-native infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. He has hands-on expertise tuning Kubernetes (HPA, VPA, pod sizing, node selection) and maintaining Python/Node.js test frameworks that run in-cluster via ArgoCD, enabling teams to standardize performance testing and observability. Notably, his work selecting AWS instance types and combining HPA/VPA doubled application speed while reducing costs fourfold, validated with his open-source locust-grasshopper load-testing framework. Equally comfortable as a full-stack contributor, he’s shipped features for grafinity.ai and enjoys exploring AI-driven tooling. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he blends practical performance engineering with a collaborative approach to enable teams to deliver at scale.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science - Study Abroad, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science - Study Abroad at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (56)
pytest10
performance-testing10
python9
benchmarking9
load-testing9
locust8
stress-testing8
aws8
listener8
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
development-kit7
testing7
visualization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alteryx/locust-grasshopper
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
a load testing tool extended from locust
Contributions:35 reviews, 42 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 year 11 months
load-testingperformanceperformance-metricsperformance-testingpytest
jmfiola/locust-influxdb-listener
Jul 2022 - Sep 2023
LocustIO base project with a custom influxDB listener.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
influxbase-projectlistenerlocustioinfluxdb
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