Jennifer Basalone
Director Of Engineering Edge Linux Networking at Fastly
Portola, California, 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
23 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 (28)
rds9
amazon9
amazon-ec28
discord-bot8
aws8
discord-js8
discord7
agentic7
cost-optimization7
git-workflow7
context-menu7
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slash-commands6
argparse6
epic6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hubot-archive/hubot-victory
Dec 2014 - Jun 2016
Time to see some victorious images!
Contributions:26 commits, 18 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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