Jeff Kolb
Senior Principal Architect Of Platforms
La Grange, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Kolb is a Senior Principal Architect of Platforms with a decade of hands-on experience modernizing infrastructure and running Kubernetes-driven production environments. Based in La Grange, Illinois, he has advanced through multiple engineering and leadership roles at StoneX Group, scaling SRE, cloud engineering, and DevOps teams while building internal platforms. Known for blending operational pragmatism with developer ergonomics, he focuses on making reliable, automated systems that empower teams to ship faster. His background spans individual contributor and management roles, giving him a rare perspective on both platform design and team-building. An early IT director and longtime ops practitioner, he brings a systems-first mindset and a knack for turning complex operational challenges into repeatable, developer-friendly solutions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, financial jargon
Github Skills (187)
container-management10
rancher10
bitnami10
orchestration10
k8s10
charts10
linux-distro10
helm10
kubernetes10
container10
cattle10
azure-kubernetes-service10
go10
rke10
docker10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
INTLFCStone/Rancher-Catalog
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 commit, 125 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
junkiebev/catalog-dockerfiles
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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