Jeff Tharp
Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Elastic
Rialto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Tharp is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over two decades of systems and network experience and 13 years focused on SRE/DevOps in cloud, SaaS, and big data environments. He brings deep Linux expertise as a long-time RHCE and has led large-scale infrastructure and operations for Elastic Cloud, maintaining Terraform across 60+ regions and multi-cloud deployments. His hands-on background spans database-as-a-service platforms (MongoDB, Elasticsearch), centralized logging, and automation using Python, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. Known for mentoring and escalation leadership, he combines low-level performance tuning and kernel/HA design with pragmatic automation to keep complex distributed services reliable. Based in Rialto, California, Jeff has a track record of turning operational knowledge from academic to enterprise contexts into resilient, scalable production systems.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
DePauw UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (54)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
odm10
mongodb10
pymongo10
python9
orm9
mapper9
mongoengine9
histogram8
flask-mongoengine8
elasticsearch-cluster8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jtharpla/RackspaceAPIChallenges
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:36 commits in 1 month
jtharpla/elasticstat
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Real-time performance monitoring of an Elasticsearch cluster from the command line
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
performance-monitoringelasticperformanceelasticsearch-clusterelasticsearch
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