Jesse Millan
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Millan is a staff-level Site Reliability and Platform Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with two decades of systems experience and a decade of focused cloud and SRE work at Oracle. He has driven the launch and operational maturity of Oracle’s managed Kubernetes (OKE), built Kubernetes-native control planes and operators, and helped scale a hosted observability platform to thousands of instances. An active open-source contributor, Jesse has implemented deep OCI integrations across Rancher and the Kubernetes autoscaler—adding cluster drivers, cloud credential management, instance-pool scaling, and flexible node shaping. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack work with CI/CD and observability expertise, and is known for turning complex cloud integrations into repeatable, revenue-preserving products. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who mentors teams, grows capabilities (from 2 to 10+ engineers), and bridges customer needs with robust platform design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Software Engineering, Masters Software Engineering at Portland State University
Github Skills (24)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
javascript10
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
cloud-infrastructure10
rancher10
ui-design10
dockers10
uid10
emberjs10
occi10
go10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/autoscaler
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Autoscaling components for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 14 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) provider for Kubernetes autoscaling. Their work focused on integrating the OCI SDK, specifically for instance pool management. They implemented features for instance pool size management, including handling scaling operations and error conditions. The user also addressed caching and shape information retrieval, and enhanced the provider with support for node labeling via annotations.
autoscalingkubernetes
rancher/rancher
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Complete container management platform
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jesse made significant contributions related to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) integration within the Rancher platform. Their work involved adding support for OCI cloud credentials and node templates, integrating an Oracle Container Engine (OKE) cluster driver, and creating a meta endpoint for OCI. Further contributions included updating and maintaining the OKE cluster and OCI node drivers, alongside addressing proxy configurations.
container-managementrancherdockerkubernetesorchestration
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