Jesse Jaggars
Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Jaggars is a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat with 15 years of experience architecting and shipping cloud-native tooling for hybrid cloud platforms, currently leading delivery of console.redhat.com. He has progressed through senior technical roles at Red Hat focused on the architecture of Red Hat Insights, combining systems-level expertise with product-facing console development. A long-time open-source contributor, Jesse has improved core infrastructure projects like WildFly and sosreport—adding cross-platform support, management API enhancements, and richer diagnostic tooling. He brings deep backend engineering skills, familiarity with CLI and packaging workflows, and a track record of turning diagnostics and data-collection challenges into production-ready solutions. Based in Raleigh, NC, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a systems-thinking approach that surfaces hard-to-see operational issues before customers do.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Science, BS, Information Science at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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python10
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plugin-development10
java10
javas10
cli10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
apidoc9
python-packaging9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RedHatInsights/insights-core
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Insights Core is a data collection and processing framework used by Red Hat Insights
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:250 commits, 95 PRs, 125 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse's contributions centered around integrating a CLI tool into the Falafel project, which is a data collection and processing framework. They added a new package called 'console' to house the CLI code and implemented setup.py to establish an entry point for running the CLI. This involved modifying files like `falafel/console/__init__.py`, `falafel/console/format.py`, and `setup.py`, demonstrating familiarity with project structure and build processes.
redhatinsights
sosreport/sos
Jun 2011 - Apr 2013
A unified tool for collecting system logs and other debug information
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:96 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily contributed to the `sosreport/sos` repository by refactoring and enhancing the core functionality of the system. Their work included significant code reorganization, adding cross-platform support, implementing dynamic policy loading, and integrating support for various features such as Jython execution, jarfile execution, and JSON-based reporting. They also introduced new plugin APIs for extending the report archive and handling global plugin options, alongside numerous bug fixes.
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