Jason Deal
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Deal is a Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and cloud-native tooling, currently working at AWS in Seattle. He is a Karpenter maintainer and contributed significant backend and state-management improvements to the aws/karpenter-provider-aws project, including Prometheus metrics integration for node termination and pod startup. Jason’s background blends production experience at AWS with internships and development roles at Traxen and teaching support at the University of Michigan, reflecting both hands-on engineering and mentorship. He focuses on observability and reliable state handling in distributed systems, with a knack for cleaning up code paths and restoring test coverage. Collected early-career experience across internships helped him move quickly into production-grade contributions in a high-scale open-source Kubernetes autoscaler.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (6)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
metric10
kubernetes-pods10
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1054 reviews, 11 commits, 533 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the implementation and refactoring of node metrics within the Karpenter project, focusing on the backend and state management aspects. They moved metrics-related code to the cluster state and integrated Prometheus metrics for node termination and pod startup. Their work included the creation of new metrics, cleanup of existing code, and fixing unit tests. They also worked on integrating Prometheus metrics to monitor the system.
autoscalingperformancek8skubernetesnodejs
jmdeal/karpenter
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 387 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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