Jacob Riddle
Software Engineer at Linode
Charlotte Metro United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Riddle is a software engineer with four years of professional experience building developer tools and automation, currently focused on improving developer experience at Linode. He contributes to open-source projects like the Linode CLI—adding safer test safeguards, Fish shell completions, and configuration refactors—and maintains an API wrapper Go package. Comfortable across Linux and Windows, he brings hands-on skills in Terraform/Ansible providers, DevOps automation, and backend tooling informed by earlier IT support and scripting work at Lowe’s. Jacob pairs practical troubleshooting experience with a curiosity for embedded systems and multiple programming languages, which deepens his systems-level perspective. Known among peers as a collaborative mentee and mentor, he actively engages with users to iterate on features and reliability.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, General Studies, Diploma, General Studies at Wilkes Central High School
English
Github Skills (14)
command-line-tool10
automation10
automations10
python10
testing10
cicd9
bash9
shell9
sh9
infrastructure8
docker8
git8
dockers8
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linode/linode-cli
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The official Linode command line interface.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 161 reviews, 9 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily focused on improving the testing and build processes of the Linode CLI. They implemented safeguards within the testing framework to prevent accidental deletion of important resources during testing. The user added a feature allowing the setting of the page size for listing actions and added tab completions for the Fish shell, improving the CLI's usability. Further contributions involved refactoring and improving the configuration and authentication code.
command-line-interfacelinodecloudinfrastructurecommand-line-tool
linode/ansible-specdoc
Nov 2022 - Dec 2025
A utility for dynamically generating Ansible Collection documentation.
Contributions:1 release, 21 reviews, 13 PRs in 3 years 1 month
ansibleansible-collectionansible-galaxy
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