Jake Hyde
Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolJake Hyde is a pragmatic back-end and DevOps engineer with eight years of experience building and hardening containerized infrastructure from Rhode Island. He has contributed to prominent open-source projects in the Rancher ecosystem, improving authentication, build/deployment pipelines, and reliability features for RKE/RKE2 and Rancher itself. His work spans Docker and Kubernetes configuration, system-agent installers, snapshot/S3 retry logic, and etcd verification—demonstrating a focus on operational resilience and secure deployments. Jake combines hands-on coding with practical DevOps know-how, regularly adding tests and fixes that address real-world vulnerabilities and deployment pain points. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex infrastructure requirements into repeatable, production-ready flows.
8 years of coding experience
University of Rhode Island
Japanese, Spanish, Russian, English
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
rke10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
etcd9
cloud-infrastructure9
automation-testing9
automation9
automations9
infrastructure9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 1082 reviews, 282 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jake's commits primarily involve modifications to the Rancher container management platform, with a focus on improving authentication and infrastructure. They addressed vulnerabilities in the code and added tests to address these issues. Additional contributions include updates to the system-agent installer and Dockerfile configurations, reflecting involvement in build and deployment processes. The contributions included building out functionality for RKE2.
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rancher/rke
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes distribution that runs entirely within containers.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 releases, 71 reviews, 14 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the repository by making changes related to containerization and build processes. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of Docker and Kubernetes, with modifications to container configurations and system jobs. The user also worked on retries for snapshot and S3 upload, as well as etcd verification, indicating involvement in system reliability and operational tasks.
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