Jason Nochlin
Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJason Nochlin is a distinguished engineer and serial founder with 16 years of experience building high-performance web and data systems, currently leading engineering at Grafana Labs. He co-founded GaggleAMP and later founded Teleport Data, where he developed patented replication and validation techniques that were acquired by Fivetran and scaled as Teleport Sync for over 1,000 customers. Equally comfortable in backend engineering and automation, Jason has contributed tooling and benchmarking improvements to prominent open-source projects like the One Billion Row Challenge, emphasizing reproducible performance analysis. He began shipping web apps at 16 and ran a six-person agency by 21, a trajectory that reflects both hands-on coding depth across languages and databases and an entrepreneurial knack for turning research-grade ideas into production products. Based in Denver with an EE degree from Tufts, he combines practical engineering leadership with a rare focus on measurable performance and automation.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Tufts University
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
automation10
bash10
benchmark10
benchmarking10
automations10
api10
ch10
apidoc10
java10
linkedin-api10
ruby10
documentation9
jq9
cicd8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gunnarmorling/1brc
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
1️⃣🐝🏎️ The One Billion Row Challenge -- A fun exploration of how quickly 1B rows from a text file can be aggregated with Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 12 PRs, 80 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason significantly contributed to improving the evaluation and benchmarking scripts for the 1brc project. They refactored the `evaluate2.sh` script, incorporating tools like `hyperfine` and `jq` for enhanced performance analysis and result reporting. Their work included adding features such as time limits, test suite integration, and a Markdown-formatted leaderboard. Furthermore, the user implemented a script to create new forks and automated Java SDK management via `sdkman`.
java1brc
hexgnu/linkedin
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Ruby wrapper for the LinkedIn API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 comment, 2 issues in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on improving the functionality and documentation of the LinkedIn API wrapper. They addressed a bug where the `all` method in the `Mash` class returned an empty array instead of nil. Additionally, the user documented various methods, including exceptions, search functionalities, and the `Mash` class, contributing to the API's usability. They also refactored the documentation system, switching from rdoc to yard, which enhanced the project's maintainability and readability.
linkedin-apiruby-wrapper
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