Jeremy Katz
Tidelift CTO at Sonar
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Katz is a systems-focused technology leader and cofounder/CTO with 26 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, developer tools, and subscription platforms that make open source sustainable. Based in Medford, MA, he led Tidelift’s technical vision and platform engineering to connect enterprises with maintainers, and now serves as Tidelift CTO driving broader product and engineering strategy. His career spans hands-on roles at Google/Stackdriver, HubSpot, and Red Hat where he architected cloud monitoring, release pipelines, and OS-level systems—work that blends deep systems engineering with product-first thinking. An active open-source contributor, Jeremy has made substantive contributions to widely used projects like dracut, dnf, collectd, and Libraries.io, often adding low-level features (LVM/LUKS support, arch support, monitoring plugins) that improve reliability and observability. He combines pragmatic operational experience with academic training from MIT’s SDM program, and quietly specializes in turning complex platform problems into maintainable, production-ready systems.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
SM Systems Design and Management, SM Systems Design and Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School, High School at North Carolina School of Science and Math
Github Skills (37)
initrd10
python10
apidoc10
plugin-development10
initramfs10
lvm10
dnf10
bash10
rails10
c1110
libcurl10
c1710
api10
rpm10
meter10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rpm-software-management/dnf
May 2005 - Jul 2009
Package manager based on libdnf and libsolv. Replaces YUM.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:262 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy contributed to the `dnf` package manager, replacing `YUM`. Their commits focused on improving the architecture support in `rpmUtils/arch.py`, adding support for new architectures like alpha. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the `yum/config.py` and `yum/depsolve.py` files by addressing issues related to kernel packages and dependencies. Several commits involved addressing code typos and minor bug fixes in different parts of the repository.
pythonrpmpackage-managerlinuxyum
collectd/collectd
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 comments, 2 issues in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy contributed to the collectd project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to data collection and processing. Their work involved adding support for custom user agents in libcurl calls across multiple plugins, enhancing the handling of hostnames in SQL plugins, and adding new configuration options and calculations for the swap and memory plugins. Additionally, the user added a plugin for monitoring zookeeper, facilitating the collection of metrics from Zookeeper's MNTR command. These contributions improved the functionality and monitoring capabilities of collectd.
metrics-servermqtt-serverriemann-clientrrdtoolgraphite-client
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