Jake Bednard
Staff Technical Solutions Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Bednard is a Staff Technical Solutions Engineer with a decade of experience designing and delivering secure, highly observable network architectures for cloud and air-gapped data centers. At Google he progressed from hands-on network engineering to leading technical delivery for Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped, architecting MP-BGP EVPN fabrics, optimizing storage dataplanes, and reducing large SNMP metric sets to lean, actionable observability. He pairs deep protocol and kernel-level networking knowledge with practical automation skills—building dashboards, runbooks, ContainerLab simulation labs, and Python tooling that saved hundreds of hours. Comfortable bridging product, operations, and software teams, he’s led cross-functional delivery for 14 engineers and established on-call, escalation, and incident processes for greenfield systems. Based in Austin, he brings a background in intelligent transportation systems and cybersecurity research, which informs a pragmatic focus on secure, efficient infrastructure automation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Wayne State UniversityAAS Information Technology - Programming, Java, AAS Information Technology - Programming, Java at Macomb Community College
Github Skills (33)
routers10
hue10
api9
network-automation8
cisco8
vms8
networking8
dashboard8
nodejs8
monitoring8
sdn8
mysql8
sonic8
cloud-init7
visualization7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JakeBednard/node-phea
May 2019 - Jun 2022
An unoffcial Phillips Hue Entertainment API library for Node.js
Contributions:2 reviews, 73 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 1 month
apiphillips-huenode-jsentertainmenthue
JakeBednard/ToDoApp
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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