Jake Robb
Principal Software Engineer at Business Wire
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Robb is a Principal Software Engineer with more than two decades of experience building cloud-native, secure, and scalable systems across industries from factory automation to fantasy sports and insurance. He specializes in Java microservices and full-stack platform security, recently overhauling authentication and authorization for DataStax’s Astra using Go, Java, and React, and contributing DevOps improvements to the popular k8ssandra Kubernetes distribution. A long-time technical lead, he combines hands-on coding—Electron, Node, React, Helm, Kubernetes—with pragmatic architecture and team coaching to deliver maintainable, testable systems. Known for quickly becoming productive in new languages and frameworks, he also led migrations of legacy customers and major DevOps transitions to Docker/Kubernetes that measurably improved operational efficiency. Based in Michigan, he’s now seeking a role with broader influence to shape engineering practices and run an entire product or platform.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science Applied Computational Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Computer Science Applied Computational Mathematics at Kettering University
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
scripting10
grafana10
script10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
traefik10
shell10
testing9
cicd9
ingress9
cassandra8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
k8ssandra/k8ssandra
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
K8ssandra is an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes including API services and operational tooling.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:121 reviews, 34 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on implementing and refining the integration of Grafana dashboards for monitoring, and configuring Ingress rules for Stargate and Cassandra within the Kubernetes environment. This involved writing and modifying shell scripts for dashboard templating, port forwarding, and updating cluster configurations. They also made numerous test suite improvements to increase the test coverage and reliability of the project.
grafanaprometheusk8ssandramedusahelm
jakerobb/plexus-javac-compiler-bug
Feb 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
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