Jacob Woliver
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Woliver is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native services and package management features at Posit, following impactful work modernizing microservices at SAS. He brings strong backend expertise in Java and Go, a track record adding Metadata Injection support to Pentaho Kettle (an established ETL project), and hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. Jacob pairs graduate-level computer science training from Georgia Tech with practical contributions to open-source data tooling, and he’s comfortable translating legacy systems into maintainable, testable services. Based in Jacksonville, FL, he combines enterprise engineering rigor with a history of cross-domain internships—from signal processing to aviation web systems—revealing a pragmatic problem-solver who thrives on migrating complex systems to modern architectures.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (11)
pentaho10
javas10
java10
data-integration9
sql-database9
databases9
junit8
jtest8
sql7
tsql7
mysql7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pentaho/pentaho-kettle
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Pentaho Data Integration ( ETL ) a.k.a Kettle
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to adding MDI (Metadata Injection) support to various Pentaho Data Integration (ETL) steps, including Memory Group By, Oracle Bulk Loader, Multiway Merge Join, Insert/Update, and Update steps. These changes involved modifying the metadata classes to enable the injection of configuration parameters, improving flexibility and usability. Additionally, the user updated related test classes.
pentaho-data-integrationetldata-integrationkettlepentaho
rstudio/python-distribution-parser
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Parse Python distributions in Go
Contributions:17 reviews, 11 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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