Jacob Khalili
Software Engineer at DV Commodities
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Khalili is a software engineer and machine learning practitioner with 11 years of experience building production software, AI models, and creative media. Based in the New York City area, he combines full‑stack and DevOps skills—evidenced by contributions to the popular jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator—with research experience developing custom BERT models and PyTorch-based recommendation engines. As founder and creative director of JK Media he has delivered high-quality web and media solutions for notable clients, and his internships span deep learning for drones and biotech image analysis. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings a rare blend of filmmaking sensibility and engineering rigor to data-driven products.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtHigh School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (12)
jenkins10
kubernetes10
jenkins-ci10
docker10
continuous-integration10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
testing9
go9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/kubernetes-operator
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Kubernetes native Jenkins Operator
Role in this project:
Full-stack & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 189 commits, 100 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the Jenkins Kubernetes Operator by adding a Dockerfile, entrypoint, and making modifications to the existing e2e tests, demonstrating proficiency in both back-end and DevOps aspects. They fixed and improved existing e2e tests, likely related to configuration, security, and general testing of the operator’s features. Further, they added a solution to support JENKINS_OPTS, and refactored configuration-related functionality.
jenkins-operatorkubernetesjenkinsoperatorcloud-native
jakalkhalili/kubernetes-operator
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Kubernetes native Jenkins Operator
Contributions:243 pushes, 48 branches in 5 months
jenkinsoperatorjenkins-operatorkuberneteskubernetes-native
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