Jacob Salway
Senior Software Engineer at Rokt
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Salway is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of professional experience spanning data engineering, analytics, and backend/DevOps work. He transitioned from analytics roles into data engineering before joining Rokt, where he progressed to a senior engineering role and focuses on building scalable, production-grade systems. Jacob is an active open-source contributor to projects like kubeflow/spark-operator, where he implemented scheduler integrations, resource limits, and upgrades across Go and Spark versions—demonstrating deep familiarity with Kubernetes and distributed data workloads. He blends hands-on coding, testing and refactoring with operational improvements, and is comfortable handling edge cases that surface in real-world cloud deployments. Trained in computer and data science at the University of Sydney, he brings both analytical rigor and practical engineering to complex data infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
kubernetes10
apache-spark10
go10
kubernetes-operator10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml8
testing8
cicd8
mikro-orm6
nodejs6
typescript6
javascript6
nextjs6
postgresql6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kubeflow/spark-operator
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Kubernetes operator for managing the lifecycle of Apache Spark applications on Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:95 reviews, 51 PRs, 212 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Kubernetes operator for Apache Spark applications. Their work included implementing features such as emptyDir size limits and integrating the Yunikorn scheduler for gang scheduling. They also made improvements to the codebase by refactoring, adding test cases, and upgrading the codebase to Golang 1.23.1 and later 1.24.1, as well as upgrading Spark to version 3.5.3. Further contributions include fixing ingress capability discovery, and handling edge cases for UI service names.
apache-sparkkuberneteskubernetes-operatorkubernetes-crdkubernetes-controller
jacobsalway/dotfiles
Oct 2017 - May 2026
Contributions:205 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 8 months
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