Jayme Howard
Staff Information Security Engineer, Infrastructure
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJayme Howard is a versatile Staff Information Security Engineer and infrastructure leader with nine years of experience building and securing large-scale systems for high-traffic sites like Reddit. He combines deep hands-on skills—Kubernetes before EKS, lift-and-shift of a 30k-user datacenter app to AWS capable of 1M simultaneous users, and bespoke legacy protocol implementations—with platform-level ownership as Compute tech lead. Comfortable across dev, ops, security, and SRE disciplines, he has modernized CI/CD pipelines, containerized customer-facing apps, and operationalized resilient auto-scaling platforms. Jayme is known for turning poorly documented protocols into reliable production services and for making complex infrastructure easy for developers to use. An active contributor to open-source projects (notably backend improvements to the Lutris desktop client), he pairs practical engineering with a relentless self-teaching drive. Based in Des Moines, he thrives as the “go-to” generalist who connects cross-functional teams to deliver measurable uptime and scale.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Iowa State University
Github Skills (10)
app-launcher10
configuration-management10
python10
gam10
launcher10
application-launcher10
gtk8
front-end-development7
testing7
git7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lutris/lutris
May 2019 - May 2019
Lutris desktop client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 37 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Jayme primarily focused on implementing and improving the configuration validation within the Lutris desktop client. Their work involved adding validation logic to runner configurations, specifically the wine runner, ensuring data integrity before saving. They addressed code quality concerns by improving CodeFactor reports, and corrected existing code, including fixing sorting functions and Discord integration. The user also demonstrated an understanding of the Lutris project's architecture by modifying core components and dependencies.
pygobjectpythongaminggame-launcherpython3
isugimpy/kubent_exporter
Apr 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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