Summary
Jeroen Soeters is a software engineer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and observability systems from startup to scale. He has led teams responsible for high-throughput ingest, aggregation and control planes (delivering reliability and cost reductions at companies like Chronosphere and Wise) and has hands-on experience shipping kernel-level instrumentation and metrics storage at Instana. Comfortable moving between IC and management roles, he has hired and grown teams, implemented career frameworks, RFC/OKR processes, and delivered customer-facing integrations and internal tooling that improved operational efficiency. His background spans distributed systems, Rust/eBPF kernel work, and product-facing APIs, reflecting both deep technical craft and operational ownership. Based in San Francisco, he brings a track record of bootstrapping engineering orgs in new regions and translating complex observability requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. Notably, he co-founded a digital signage startup early in his career where he built an end-to-end software and hardware stack, revealing a long-standing penchant for full-stack system design.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Open Universiteit
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, German