Jacob Straszynski
Staff Engineer At Planet
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Straszynski is a Staff Engineer at Planet with 14 years of hands-on experience building distributed, scalable systems across the full stack. He blends pragmatic engineering—prioritizing time-to-market, maintainability, and readability—with a deep appreciation for algorithmic efficiency rooted in a computer engineering background from the University of Alberta. His career spans startups and product teams (Mover.io, Planet Labs) where he designed concurrent, message-based architectures and shipped production services. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and operations, he favors open source and *nix environments and often approaches problems from both systems and product perspectives. Colleagues rely on him to trade off idealism for shipping robust, well-tested solutions that perform in the real world.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Alberta
Polish
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
telegraf10
scheduling10
influxdb10
k8s10
json10
prometheus10
visualization10
time-series10
slack-bot10
controller10
prometheus-exporter10
ingress-nginx10
kubernetes10
mysql10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
planetlabs/kostanza
Sep 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:53 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 8 months
jacobstr/kube-state-metrics
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 5 months
agentobservabilityexposekubernetesprometheus
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