Jesse An
Director Of DevOps Engineering at Fortinet
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJesse An is a seasoned DevOps leader with over 20 years in IT and a track record of modernizing infrastructure across startups and large enterprises, now serving as Director of DevOps Engineering at Fortinet. He has led hybrid cloud transformations at Akamai, built CI/CD pipelines that slashed release cycles, and operationalized Kubernetes platforms and IaC practices across multiple organizations. A hands-on manager who progressed from systems administrator roles at Autodesk and Oracle to senior leadership, Jesse blends deep operational discipline with automation-first thinking and proven disaster recovery expertise. He also sits at the intersection of enterprise ops and emerging tech as CEO of Virgent AI and Co-Chair of the Open Metaverse Interoperability Group, reflecting a broader interest in open source and interoperability beyond traditional infrastructure.
5 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Information Technology & Systems Management, Master of Science Information Technology & Systems Management at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of Washington
Github Skills (100)
interoperability10
windows10
linux10
chromium10
browser10
firefox10
sandbox10
brave10
discord10
dbus10
driver10
explore10
brave-browser10
aframe9
3d-models9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AngellXR/xrshowcase
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Explore, test, and publish WebXR projects.
Contributions:363 commits, 1 PR, 361 pushes in 2 years 1 month
publishwebxrexplore
omigroup/omi-chan
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Repo to hold all OMI-chan avatar assets as well as discussions.
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 5 comments in 1 month
avatarassetschanomi
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