Jason Gilanfarr
Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn
Truckee, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Gilanfarr is a Senior Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance, reliable, and scalable distributed systems from bootstrapped services to large cloud platforms. He has driven major improvements in container orchestration and CI at Mesosphere and continues to lead architectural delivery at LinkedIn, blending hands-on backend work with cross-functional product collaboration. Known for rooting out race conditions and improving scheduler behavior, his open-source contributions to Marathon demonstrate practical expertise deploying containers on Apache Mesos at scale. He has a track record of lifting uptime, implementing zero-downtime and blue-green deployments, and migrating production infrastructure between cloud providers under tight windows. Based in Truckee, California, he pairs systems-level engineering depth with leadership across remote teams spanning multiple time zones. His background ranges from embedded and RTLinux work to enterprise disaster-recovery automation, reflecting unusual breadth across low-level and distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Incline High SchoolBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Boston University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
mesos10
backend10
back-end-development10
marathon10
scala10
dcos9
containerization9
apache-spark6
failover6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
d2iq-archive/marathon
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Deploy and manage containers (including Docker) on top of Apache Mesos at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 40 commits, 160 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the Marathon project's back-end functionality by modifying and enhancing the TaskBuilder and other related classes. The contributions include creating environment variables for named ports, validating constraints, and fixing race conditions within the MarathonSchedulerActor. The user also upgraded libraries, and added a new constraint related to maximum instances per field, further improving the application's behavior.
containersdcosdockerapachescale
jasongilanfarr/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 16 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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