Jake Davis
Software Engineer at Slack
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJake Davis is a seasoned software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 13 years of experience specializing in SRE, infrastructure, and cloud platforms. He has built large-scale reliability tooling at Slack—including a Go-based SLO platform that moved evaluations from weekly to hourly and powers thousands of SLOs—and has driven high-throughput observability pipelines that ingest tens of billions of events per day with sub-minute latency. Previously he led infrastructure migrations and deployment rewrites that cut deploy times from 30+ minutes to seconds, and designed secure, scalable network architectures on AWS at Eaze. Comfortable across Ruby, Go, Python, TypeScript, and Rust, he contributes to open-source tooling such as the influxdb-ruby client and focuses on practical, test-backed improvements that reduce cost and engineer friction. Collectedly, his work blends hands-on systems programming with product-minded platform improvements and a knack for delivering high-impact, budget-conscious solutions.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Master's degree, City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning at Portland State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (7)
rspec10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
json9
http8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
InfluxCommunity/influxdb-ruby
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Ruby client for InfluxDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Jake contributed to the InfluxDB Ruby client by implementing and enhancing configuration management, introducing cluster administration endpoints, and adding database privilege alteration methods. They added the ability to create, update, and delete cluster admins. Furthermore, they implemented features to manage database user privileges. This included adding tests for the newly implemented cluster administration and database privilege functionalities, ensuring code quality.
influxdbruby-clientrubyfaunadb
SimpleFinance/chef-rabbitmq
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:99 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
cookbookrabbitmqchef
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