James Geisler
Senior Software Engineer, Observability at Roku
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Geisler is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in observability with five years of hands-on experience building scalable monitoring and tracing platforms for cloud and on-prem environments. He has advanced expertise in OpenTelemetry-based distributed tracing, Jaeger, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Prometheus, and Thanos, and has applied Golang, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and cloud tooling to productionize observability at scale. At Optum and now Roku he progressed from infrastructure and incident triage into designing enterprise observability pipelines, blending SRE pragmatism with platform engineering. Trained in MIS and supply chain management, he brings a practical systems-thinking approach and a history of scripting automation (Python/Perl) that smooths incident response and delivery. Based in Chicago, James pairs deep operational experience with a focus on reliable, developer-friendly telemetry.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad - Rome, Italy, International Business, Study Abroad - Rome, Italy, International Business at John Cabot UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, Bachelor of Science (BS), Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at Iowa State University - Ivy College of Business
English
Github Skills (58)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
observability10
high-availability10
kubernetes-operator10
grafana10
storage10
ab-testing10
google-cloud-storage10
go10
prometheus10
contour10
opentelemetry10
thanos10
logging10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jdgeisler/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingcollectoropentelemetry
jdgeisler/grafana-helm-charts
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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