Jarod Watkins
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJarod Watkins is a Senior Software Engineer in Raleigh, NC with 11 years of systems and DevOps-focused experience driving large-scale migrations and cost-reduction initiatives. At Google he led the Fitbit metrics migration, designing tools to import alerting and metrics into Google infrastructure that cut third-party dependencies and lowered maintenance overhead. He pairs deep operational knowledge—from early systems administration roles to senior operations engineering—with hands-on programming across configuration management and monitoring stacks. Known for collaborating across teams during acquisitions, he helps translate legacy telemetry into cloud-native solutions and advises others facing similar integrations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, automation-first approaches that balance reliability, cost, and long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ECPI College of Technology
Github Skills (116)
accessories10
high-availability10
prometheus-exporter10
notification-center10
monitoring10
glusterfs10
lucky-framework10
prometheus-alertmanager10
pagerduty10
graphing10
database10
observability10
storage10
homekit10
go10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ipstatic/surfboard_exporter
Aug 2016 - Apr 2017
Surfboard signal metrics exporter for the Prometheus monitoring system
Contributions:5 releases, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
exportersignalprometheus-exportersurfboardmetrics-exporter
ipstatic/wallop-docker
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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