Jen Patague
Systems Engineer at Yelp
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Patague is a Systems Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building and operating reliable infrastructure across startups and research institutions. At Yelp she focuses on backend and DevOps work for large-scale PaaS components, improving performance and adding tooling such as image-versioning CLIs while contributing caching and Kubernetes integrations to the popular paasta platform. Her background spans mobile development, systems administration, and custom web applications from earlier roles, reflecting a hands-on ability to own services end-to-end. Trained in applied mathematics, computer science, and cognitive science at UC Berkeley, she blends quantitative thinking with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues rely on her to bridge operational needs and developer workflows, and she has a knack for surfacing subtle failure modes (like missing ecosystem data) into durable fixes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Applied Mathematics w/ emphasis in CS, Cognitive Science, Bachelor's, Applied Mathematics w/ emphasis in CS, Cognitive Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
caching10
kubernetes10
paas10
python10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
devops9
docker9
api8
apim8
api-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:377 reviews, 179 commits, 147 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jen primarily focused on improving the performance of the PaaS platform, particularly related to the metastatus service, by implementing caching mechanisms. Their contributions included refactoring code to move cached node and pod functions, and integrating updated code into kubernetes tools. They also released new versions of the software and addressed a specific issue related to handling missing ecosystem data within the vault secret provider. They also created a new cli tool for handling image versioning.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
jfongatyelp/will
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 4 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 5 months
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