Jeff Billimek
Distinguished Engineer at The Home Depot
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Billimek is a Sr. Principal Engineer with 12+ years of experience shaping cloud-native platforms, CI/CD, and developer collaboration at scale. At The Home Depot he led enterprise GitHub, inner-sourcing, and Spinnaker-driven continuous deployment to GKE while defining on-prem Kubernetes strategy and chairing platform and CI/CD guilds. He has deep pedigree in operational backend systems and logging—contributing to gliderlabs/logspout work around GELF and Docker image deployment—and a history of cutting build times and improving reliability from his Delta and Turner roles. Known as a relentless problem solver, he combines rigorous, data-driven architectural decisions (ADRs) with hands-on prototyping and mentorship. Based in Marietta, GA, Jeff brings a pragmatic blend of infrastructure craftsmanship and a proven knack for enabling developer productivity across large engineering organizations.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor's degree Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Information Systems at Kennesaw State University
English
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Github Skills (11)
dependency-management10
docker10
go10
dockers10
build-automation9
syslog9
api8
integrations8
api-design8
back-end-development8
backend8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
gliderlabs/logspout
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Log routing for Docker container logs
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on integrating and managing dependencies, specifically related to GELF logging, indicating a strong involvement with backend infrastructure and logging systems. They switched and fixed references to GELF modules, and made changes to the modules.go file to ensure proper dependencies. They also made contributions related to the build and deployment of the logspout application with a focus on the Docker image.
docker-containerdockersyslogdocker-logs
billimek/billimek
Sep 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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