Jeff Halter
Site Reliability Engineer at Apple
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Halter is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience maintaining internet-facing server infrastructure at scale, currently supporting reliability at Apple. He has deep practical expertise in virtualization, provisioning, load balancing, and large-scale VMware and KVM deployments from roles at Groupon, eBay, and PayPal. Jeff combines hands-on systems work—automating OS provisioning, building Ruby and Python tooling, and integrating deployment and reporting systems—with 24/7 on-call experience for production web services. His background spans both classic datacenter operations and modern SRE practices, enabling rapid scaling of critical user-facing platforms. Describing himself as a “software anacronist,” he brings a pragmatic, long-view approach to infrastructure problems and a knack for bridging legacy systems with newer automation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
command-line9
cli9
golang9
linux9
command-line-tool9
cross-platform8
macos8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jhalter/mobius
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
A Hotline server implemented in Golang for macOS, Linux, and Windows operating systems
Contributions:95 releases, 315 commits, 149 PRs in 1 year 6 months
golangcommand-line-toolhotline-clienthotlinelinux
jhalter/homebrew-mobius-hotline-client
Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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