Jacob Lisi
Software Engineer at Google
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Lisi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in automation and time-series systems, currently at Google and based in Brookline, MA. He has deep backend and DevOps expertise from his years at Grafana Labs, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Cortex, Mimir, and Grafana’s jsonnet libraries that power scalable Prometheus storage and observability tooling. Jacob combines systems-level Go work (ingestion, disk caching, query performance) with practical infra-as-code and Kubernetes configuration, and has also modernized front-end codebases by migrating dashboards to TypeScript. He has a hands-on track record shipping production improvements—such as shared disk cache designs, query instrumentation, and Bigtable client updates—that boost multi-tenant, long-term metric storage at scale. His background in data analysis from academic research and early full-stack and QA roles gives him a pragmatic, test-minded approach to reliability and performance. Colleagues can expect an engineer who bridges backend performance, DevOps automation, and maintainable developer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Chemistry at The College of William and Mary
English
Github Skills (45)
timeseries-database10
caching10
kubernetes10
javascript10
observability10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
cassandra10
typescript10
distributed-systems10
grafana10
go10
api10
prometheus10
jsonnet10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grafana-cold-storage/kubernetes-app
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
A set of dashboards and panels for kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on refactoring and updating the Grafana Kubernetes application's frontend components. They modified dashboard names, updated navigation paths, and adjusted various UI elements across multiple components, including cluster information, workloads, and pod details. A significant portion of their work involved converting the codebase to TypeScript, enhancing the codebase's maintainability. Additionally, they implemented template variable capabilities for the Kubernetes plugin, enabling greater customization.
kubernetesgrafanaprometheus
cortexproject/cortex
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
A horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant, long term Prometheus.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 331 reviews, 162 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to backend development tasks within the Cortex project. Their work involved implementing a user-based metric for sample distribution using Go, specifically modifying the `distributor.go` file. The user also made significant changes related to disk caching, introducing improvements around shared diskcache for each schema, and adding a background writer and global timeout. Furthermore, they added a command-line option to the query-frontend and updated Bigtable client dependencies.
multi-tenantprometheuskubernetesmonitoringcncf
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