Summary
Jacob Krall is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and modernizing legacy platforms across companies like MongoDB, Netflix, Stripe, and Spreedly. He specializes in cross-cloud edge ingress, global service mesh, and operational excellence—often taking primary on-call responsibility and mentoring others through incidents and onboarding. Jacob has led large migrations and architecture modernizations, from untangling decade-old codebases to preparing products for acquisition, and has a track record of reducing toil through automation (e.g., Autosetup) and decisive architectural wins. Comfortable across C#, Java, Ruby, and Python, he blends hands-on engineering with people leadership, recruiting, and DIB(E)-focused team development. Based in Winston-Salem and a Rose-Hulman alumnus, he pairs calm incident coordination with an eye for pragmatic reliability improvements that surface only after years running production systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering and Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology