Summary
Jess Males is a Sr. DevOps and Site Reliability engineer with 11+ years building and hardening cloud-native infrastructure for high-scale consumer and enterprise services across the Greater Seattle Area. She has led SRE and reliability efforts at companies like Life360, Starbucks, and Pinterest, specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, automation, and capacity management to keep systems handling billions of events daily. An advocate for Chaos Engineering from her time advising at Gremlin, she focuses on reducing toil through automation and operational best practices. Jess is also an active open-source contributor to sysdig, where she’s improved debugging, documentation, and kernel-module parameter handling—evidence of her attention to maintainability and low-level systems detail. Her background spans consulting, platform architecture, and hands-on systems work, giving her a rare mix of strategic leadership and deep technical execution.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS CS Information Systems Security, BS CS Information Systems Security at Limestone University
University of Kentucky
Whitley County High School
Mirantis Training