Jess Males
Sr DevOps at TriumphPay
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJess 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 UniversityUniversity of KentuckyWhitley County High SchoolMirantis Training
Github Skills (10)
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
kernel-module8
kernel8
system-administration7
debugging7
debug7
filesystem6
file-operations6
fileio6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
draios/sysdig
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Linux system exploration and troubleshooting tool with first class support for containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 34 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jess primarily contributed to the `sysdig` project by addressing bugs and improving code quality. They fixed a bug related to directory name normalization, corrected typos in code, and updated documentation to improve clarity. They also implemented a feature to read the maximum consumer value from module parameters. These changes indicate a focus on refining the functionality and maintainability of the system exploration tool.
containerstroubleshootingseccomplinuxdocker
Hefeweizen/utilities
Jun 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:44 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 9 months
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