Jake Alper
Technical Advisor, DevOps Engineering at Cummins Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJake Alper is a DevOps and platform engineering leader with 10+ years building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure across startups and enterprise environments. He’s driven reliability and rapid delivery—from managing multi-thousand GPU clusters at Microsoft to establishing GitOps and observability practices that enabled multiple daily releases at Reprise. As Technical Advisor for Cummins and former Senior Platform Engineer at First Mode, he blends hands-on systems engineering with strategic customer-facing work, having also led onboarding and product-driven success programs at Garden.io. Comfortable with both datacenter migrations and modern Kubernetes/GitOps stacks, Jake’s background shows a rare mix of deep operational experience, team leadership, and customer advocacy that reduces friction between engineering and product.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (13)
testing10
developer-tools10
kubernetes9
caching9
automation9
charts6
vmware6
helm6
github-app5
bitnami4
slack3
plex2
amazon-echo2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
garden-io/garden
Jan 2022 - Aug 2023
Automation for Kubernetes development and testing. Spin up production-like environments for development, testing, and CI on demand. Use the same configuration and workflows at every step of the process. Speed up your builds and test runs via shared result caching
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches, 4 comments in 1 year 8 months
automationcachingkubernetestestingdeveloper-tools
OverloadUT/alexa-plex
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Alexa (Amazon Echo) app for interacting with a Plex Server and controlling client playback
Contributions:2 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
amazon-echoplex
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