Jerad Jacob
Principle Site Reliability Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJerad Jacob is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating resilient infrastructure for large-scale entertainment and hospitality environments. At The Walt Disney Company he led systems engineering and automation for Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club and Adventures by Disney, pioneering automated build-and-deploy pipelines that addressed the unique constraints of shipboard and island operations. He also standardized RedHat OS builds and Desired State configuration across enterprise fleets, improving change success and reducing MTTR while shifting teams from reactive firefighting to proactive infrastructure stewardship. Comfortable across hands-on systems administration, consulting, and technical leadership, Jerad combines deep operational rigor with practical automation to keep highly distributed services reliable. Based in Orlando, he brings an electrical engineering background and early full-stack support experience that inform pragmatic solutions for complex, real-world environments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
J.R. Arnold High SchoolElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (73)
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particle-photon10
smartthings9
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wifi9
arduino9
solar9
django8
monitoring8
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Here-Be-Dragons/Pool-Controller
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Cloud-based pump speed, solar collector controls, and temperature monitoring for your pool with SmartThings and Alexa integration
Contributions:97 commits, 6 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 year 7 months
cloud-computingmonitoringsmartthingspumppump-control
gradyh/Photon-Weather-Station
May 2016 - Mar 2026
Wifi-enabled weather display using panel meters
Contributions:1 PR in 9 years 11 months
wifi
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