Jes Olson
Engineering Manager, GPU Provisioning at DigitalOcean
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJes Olson is an engineering manager specializing in GPU provisioning and infrastructure, with a decade of experience building reliable provisioning, Linux, and DevOps systems at DigitalOcean and Best Buy. Known as an "accelerant and a stick of glue," Jes combines hands-on skills in Go, CI/CD, imaging, and hardware provisioning with a people-first leadership style that empowers autonomy and psychological safety. They have repeatedly moved from individual contributor work—owning imaging, configuration, and large-scale availability—to managing teams that deliver production-grade GPU and infra services. A shell enthusiast and self-described "ops necromancer," Jes brings pragmatic troubleshooting instincts and a knack for translating complex infrastructure context into actionable autonomy for engineers. Based in Minneapolis, they pair steady truth-telling and active listening with a history of on-call, support, and community-facing roles that keep both systems and teams healthy.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampComputer Networking, Computer Networking at Northwood Technical College
English
Github Skills (128)
go-language10
encryption10
alpine-linux10
golang10
sensu10
password-manager10
linux9
vault9
shell9
programming-language9
matrix-synapse9
build-script9
posix9
go9
pagerduty8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
biox/vore
Mar 2023 - Sep 2025
a simple, multi-tenant rss feed reader
Contributions:3 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
multi-tenantrss
digitalocean/marketplace-matrix
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Source code for https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/matrix-synapse-backend
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
backendmatrix-synapse
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