Jeff Banks
Software Engineering Manager at Stealth Startup
United States
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Top SchoolJeff Banks is a software engineering manager and seasoned hands-on technologist with 10+ years focused on cloud-native data systems and a long career building resilient, event-driven applications across transportation, healthcare, and industrial control. He’s driven product, tooling, and open-source contributions at DataStax—notably enhancing the widely used K8ssandra distribution for Cassandra on Kubernetes—while leading teams to ship secure, test-driven microservices and operational tooling. Proficient in Go, Java/Kotlin, Python and Rust, he blends DevOps practices (Kubernetes, GKE, Terraform/Pulumi) with domain-driven design and TDD to deliver reliable production systems. A former Air Force operator, he brings disciplined systems thinking and a collaborative leadership style that prioritizes efficiency, quality, and inclusion. Jeff values having fun with teams who care about diversity and builds pragmatic solutions that scale in complex, real-world environments.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at University of Iowa
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Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
helm10
cassandra10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
yaml9
go9
html6
html5-canvas6
javascript6
kivy6
python6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
k8ssandra/k8ssandra
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
K8ssandra is an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra for Kubernetes including API services and operational tooling.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:172 reviews, 40 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing and testing the k8ssandra-cluster chart template. Their contributions include creating unit tests for the chart template, removing struct reliance, and expanding the unit tests. Additionally, they made changes to include the addition of security contexts, jvm options configuration, as well as volume mounting. They also included testing of different cluster configurations.
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jeffbanks/Date-Time-Traveler
Sep 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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