Jacob Weinstock
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Weinstock is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and bare-metal provisioning systems, currently at NVIDIA and an active maintainer of the Tinkerbell open-source project. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Kubernetes, gRPC and Linux, having driven production services at Equinix Metal, AWS (EKS Anywhere), and NetApp. Jacob’s work spans backend engineering and DevOps—improving database integrity, eliminating runtime panics, and simplifying local development workflows for widely used provisioning tooling. Based in Fort Collins, he combines systems-level troubleshooting with an eye for developer experience, and his open-source contributions reflect a commitment to reliable, testable infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems, Computer Science at California State University-Long Beach
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
docker10
go10
dockers10
grpc10
cicd9
bare-metal9
postgresql7
testing7
database7
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
databases7
test-kitchen6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
tinkerbell/tink
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
Workflow Engine for provisioning Bare Metal
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:223 reviews, 55 commits, 78 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Tinkerbell workflow engine. They introduced improvements in the database interactions, addressing issues related to timestamps and data retrieval. Additionally, the user added a simplified Docker Compose setup for easier local development and testing. They also fixed a critical gRPC server runtime panic.
bare-metalprovisioningmetalyangtinkerbell
jacobweinstock/pbnj
Sep 2020 - Jan 2025
Microservice that communicates with our bmcs, ipmi to control power, boot etc
Contributions:5 releases, 214 pushes, 119 branches in 4 years 4 months
bare-metallte5grouterossdn
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