Jennifer Basalone
Engineering Lead, Foundations
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolJennifer Basalone is an engineering leader with 20+ years of experience building and scaling global infrastructure and platform teams, currently heading Foundations at Splice from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has led large, distributed teams at Dropbox and OpenDNS/Cisco, driving initiatives that managed exabytes of data, achieved 99.99% uptime, and delivered tens of millions in CAPEX/OPEX savings through modernization and hardware strategy. Jennifer pairs deep systems and storage expertise—deploying petabyte-class SMR drives and AMD compute optimizations—with operational rigor in monitoring, automation, and incident reduction. She is a proven talent builder who improved diversity and retention while promoting engineers into senior roles and founding internal ERGs to strengthen engineering culture. Early career roots in UNIX, networking and large-scale data center deployments give her a hands-on perspective that informs strategic decisions today. Collected over decades of cross-functional leadership, she blends vendor partnership, cost optimization, and pragmatic engineering to reliably move massive systems forward.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
A.S. Biology, Biology, Nursing, A.S. Biology, Biology, Nursing at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular Biology at George Mason University
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Github Skills (23)
amazon10
rds9
amazon-ec28
aws8
cost-optimization8
notebook8
jupyter8
discord-js7
ipython7
discord-bot7
reminder7
python7
argparse6
epic6
amazon-iam6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jbasalone/Navi
Dec 2022 - Feb 2025
EPIC RPG reminder / helper
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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