Jeff Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at DocuSign
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building automation, cloud-native systems, and customer-facing frontends at companies like DocuSign and Amazon. He blends hands-on engineering in AWS, Node.js, Python, and modern front-end frameworks with a strong DevOps mindset—authoring CI/CD pipelines, test and release automation, and security guardrails for large-scale retail and cloud environments. At Amazon he led front-end re-architecture efforts for high-traffic pages, and his open-source work includes maintaining testing and release infrastructure for AWS’s widely used amazon-vpc-cni-k8s project. Known for eliminating repetitive developer work, Jeff creates tools and abstractions that boost velocity and reliability across teams. He also brings practical experience in cost optimization, governance, and performance testing, pairing technical depth with a pragmatic focus on operational excellence.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer End User Technology, Computer End User Technology at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterAS: Programmer/Analyst, PHP, AS: Programmer/Analyst, PHP at Madison Area Technical CollegeHS Diploma, HS Diploma at Waukesha North High School
English, German
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
bash10
docker10
cloud-infrastructure10
infrastructure10
ginkgo10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
cni9
plugin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:16 releases, 601 reviews, 35 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the testing and release infrastructure of the `aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s` repository. Their work involved updating test scripts (`run-canary-test.sh`, `run-integration-tests.sh`, etc.) to use newer versions of testing frameworks like Ginkgo, and to accommodate changes in dependencies. They also implemented and maintained the release process, including updates to image versions and manifest files. This user appears to be instrumental in the automated testing and deployment aspects of the project.
elasticnetworkingnetwork-interfacescni-pluginkubernetes
jdn5126/BarnesHutSimulation
Aug 2020 - Jul 2024
Parallel implementation of Barnes-Hut algorithm using OpenMP.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
parallelpython-bindingsparallel-computinghutopenmp
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