Jacob Zelek
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Zelek is a Staff Software Engineer based in California with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable back-end, middleware, and distributed systems. He started as a release engineer and progressed through full-stack and SRE roles to senior and staff engineering at LinkedIn, giving him deep fluency across the entire development and deployment lifecycle. Jacob favors clean, well-documented code and practical architectures that make software intuitive and extend human capabilities. He combines systems administration, databases, APIs, testing, and monitoring expertise to deliver production-grade services at scale. Outside work he applies engineering rigor to hobbies as an active ham radio operator (WQ6P), reflecting a persistent curiosity about communications and systems.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of California, DavisFoothill College
English
Github Skills (43)
monitoring10
visualization10
observability10
dashboard10
mysql10
feed10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
s0lesurviv0r/ham-go
Apr 2021 - Mar 2022
Amateur radio related code written in go
Contributions:3 releases, 21 pushes, 8 branches in 10 months
golangamateuramateur-radiogoradio
s0lesurviv0r/go-concurrent-map-bench
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Benchmark for concurrent maps in Golang
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
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