Jacob Lindgren
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Lindgren is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native microservices and migrating legacy Rails systems to Go to improve scalability and performance. Based in Omaha, he combines deep GNU/Linux expertise with hands-on work in Go, Ruby on Rails, and Elixir, and has driven platform engineering at Red Hat across OpenShift, Kubernetes, and CI/CD stacks. His background spans API design, geospatial services, and automation with Ansible and CloudForms, reflecting a practical blend of backend engineering and infrastructure orchestration. Jacob is a habitual builder and tinkerer—maintaining a technical blog and public GitHub—who often surfaces operational improvements (e.g., championing Git adoption at Hayneedle) before they become team standards.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, GS / Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, GS / Computer Science at University of Nebraska at OmahaHigh School, High School at Boone Central High SchoolChemistry Teacher Education, Chemistry Teacher Education at Hastings College
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Github Skills (111)
rbac10
unix9
safari9
keyboard9
linux9
browser9
kvm9
pagination9
mouse9
encryption9
operator9
operating-system9
webextension9
docker9
operator-sdk9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lindgrenj6/sources-api-go
Jun 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 666 pushes, 322 branches in 1 year 10 months
RedHatInsights/sources-superkey-worker
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:32 reviews, 132 commits, 84 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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