Jacob Payne
Engineering Manager at Angi
Greater Phoenix Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJacob Payne is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native infrastructure and edge systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes ecosystems, contributing to notable open-source projects like Rancher and Kairos where he improved logging, deployment flexibility, and cluster plugin SDKs. At SUSE and SpectroCloud he led release processes, architected edge/air-gapped provisioning solutions, and created developer tooling such as Corral to speed CI and reproducible environments. Known for blending backend and DevOps skills, he focuses on reliability, certificate and registry management, and performance optimizations in production systems. Based in the Greater Phoenix Area, Jacob combines team leadership with frequent code-level contributions, often tackling the operational gaps that let distributed systems scale. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning release and observability pain points into repeatable tools and processes that accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
develop10
plugin-development10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
agent10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
logging10
orchestration10
orchestra10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 446 reviews, 89 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the backend and infrastructure aspects of the Rancher platform. Their work involved updating core configuration files and dependencies, specifically related to Kubernetes version support (EKS) and RKE upgrades. They also focused on certificate rotation and system catalog image management, indicating involvement in deployment, configuration, and maintenance tasks. Further, the user made changes to logging and authentication-related code.
containersorchestrationdockerrancherkubernetes
rancher/charts
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Github based Helm Chart Index Repository providing charts crafted for Rancher Manager
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:179 reviews, 163 commits, 145 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Rancher charts repository, focusing on the logging component. Their work involved adding support for different Kubernetes distributions such as k3s and eks, along with adjustments for system registries and image version updates. They also addressed template issues, corrected CRD configurations, and exposed logging options, showcasing a focus on chart maintainability and deployment flexibility.
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