Jake Klein
Senior Software Engineer at Syntasso
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Klein is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with a decade of experience building cloud-native backends and DevOps tooling. He has worked at Syntasso, Weaveworks, and Pivotal/VMware, bringing production-grade engineering to Kubernetes and AWS ecosystems. His open-source contributions to the widely used eksctl CLI include adding SSM-enabled SSH and more robust nodegroup failure handling, reflecting deep practical knowledge of AWS EKS and infrastructure automation. A First Class BSc Computer Science graduate from Royal Holloway, he combines strong academic foundations with hands-on experience shipping resilient, operator-focused tooling for large-scale clusters.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Royal Holloway, University of London
English
Github Skills (7)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
aws10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
go9
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
eksctl-io/eksctl
Oct 2020 - May 2022
The official CLI for Amazon EKS
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1125 reviews, 184 commits, 691 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jake's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the eksctl CLI for Amazon EKS. They implemented a new flag to enable Simple System Manager (SSM) for easier SSH access, adding functionality to the core CLI. Furthermore, they improved the handling of failed nodegroups, refactoring existing logic to use stack status. Their contributions demonstrate an understanding of backend development, AWS infrastructure, and DevOps practices.
aws-cloudformationkubernetes-deploymentamazon-eksamazoneks
weaveworks/pctl-test-repo
Apr 2021 - Oct 2021
Test repository for weaveworks/pctl
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 395 pushes in 5 months
test-repository
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