Summary
Jacob Wiltse is a Vehicle Software Deployment Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and production software, currently applying his skills to vehicle software workflows at Stoke Space. He combines 5+ years of professional software development in Python, Go, and Rust with deep operational expertise across multiple cloud providers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and Helm to automate complex CI/CD and deployment pipelines. His background spans embedded tooling, containerization, and large-scale data ingest platforms, giving him a practical edge in bridging developer needs with robust, cost-effective infrastructure. Known for picking the right tool for the job, he has repeatedly led efforts to containerize systems and introduce observability and automation for production environments. Based in Michigan, he brings a blend of hands-on engineering and systems-thinking to aerospace and defense-grade software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Systems Science, Bachelors Computer Systems Science at Michigan Technological University
Dexter High School
English