Jake Herbst
DevOps Engineer at BuildTime
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Herbst is a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building observability, automation, and resilient infrastructure for high-scale organizations from Mailchimp to Workday and Intuit. He specializes in transforming manual release and operational processes into continuous deployment pipelines, implementing monitoring and auto-remediation, and driving zero‑downtime upgrades across critical fleets. Jake pairs hands-on systems engineering—Linux, systemd, nginx/apache, Caddy, and cloud migrations—with developer-focused tooling that improves migrations, database workflows, and deployment velocity. An active open source contributor, he has improved code quality and deployment ergonomics for projects like BirdNET-Pi, bringing production-grade linting, virtualenvs, and service orchestration to edge devices. Based in the Atlanta area, he blends enterprise SRE leadership with practical DevOps craftsmanship and a track record of reducing toil and increasing release cadence.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Business Administration; Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Business Administration; Management Information Systems at The University of Alabama
Github Skills (9)
sh10
script10
shell10
devops10
python10
scripting10
systemd9
caddy8
git7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi
May 2022 - May 2022
A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 41 commits, 10 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on improving the code quality and adhering to the PEP8 style guide. They used `autopep8` to automatically fix style violations and addressed remaining issues manually. This included refactoring Python scripts and ensuring linting with `flake8`. Additionally, the user worked on the Caddy configuration, the systemd services, and the shell scripts, by adding enhancements such as the use of a python3 virtual environment and a branch switch functionality to the update process.
realtimeraspberry-pibirdsong-spectrogrampythonraspberry
jmherbst/BirdNET-Pi
May 2022 - May 2022
A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 80 pushes in 15 days
realtimeraspberry-pipythonraspberrybird
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