Jeff Wolak
Director Of Software Engineering - SplunkCloud Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJeff Wolak is a seasoned infrastructure and SRE leader with 20+ years of networking and systems experience and a decade focused on software and cloud automation at scale. Currently Director of Software Engineering for SplunkCloud Infrastructure, he grew teams from single digits to 30+ engineers while delivering compliance-heavy initiatives like FedRAMP High and IL5 and driving platform scalability and resilience. He combines hands-on fluency in Go, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes and AWS with a pragmatic DIY ethos and strong open-source sensibilities to turn complex operational requirements into auditable, automated systems. Across roles he has built platforms managing 10,000+ instances, created custom Terraform providers and operator tools, and led cross-functional efforts that directly enabled a ~$1B cloud business. Based in San Francisco, he’s known for empathetic leadership that develops engineers from interns to principals while keeping reliability and security front and center.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (36)
com-port10
mud9
docker9
graph9
golang9
go8
terraform8
container8
ecosystem8
moby7
hashicorp7
aws7
assemble7
terraform-module7
infrastructure6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SplunkCloud/terraform-provider-dyn
May 2018 - Mar 2019
Terraform Dyn provider
Contributions:22 PRs, 25 pushes, 10 branches in 9 months
terraform-providerdynproviderterraform
wershlak/sneezymud
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
The "official" SneezyMUD that runs on sneezymud.org port 7900
Contributions:46 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year
runs
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