Jacob Gonzalez
Senior Software Engineer at Atlassian
Greater Canberra Area Australia
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Top SchoolJacob Gonzalez is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years' experience focused on cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and Kubernetes platform engineering. At Atlassian he leads efforts to modernize the Kubernetes stack—leveraging Cluster API and community OSS—to deliver multi-tenant clusters at scale and routinely authors Go services and operational tooling. His background includes designing an open-source batch job horizontal autoscaler and large Terraform-driven CICD deployments, reflecting a practical mix of automation, reliability, and contributor-minded engineering. Based in Australia and grounded in a Computer Software Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide, he pairs hands-on systems work with mentoring experience from teaching large university programming classes. Notably, he blends production-scale cluster operations with active engagement in upstream projects to push platform improvements back into the community.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (72)
kubernetes-cluster10
scale10
pipeline10
golang10
batch10
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
cicd10
docker10
scaling10
aws10
devops10
async9
continuous-delivery9
nushell9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
atlassian/escalator
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Escalator is a batch or job optimized horizontal autoscaler for Kubernetes
Contributions:11 releases, 51 reviews, 246 commits in 4 years 3 months
kubernetesautoscalingawsgolangcluster
Jacobious52/picky
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
Alternative fuzzy picker library with focus on tabulated data and streaming + Windows support
Contributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 8 months
windows
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