Jesse Nelson
VP Production Engineering at Goldman Sachs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Nelson is a seasoned infrastructure and production engineering leader with 25 years of experience designing and operating UNIX/Linux systems, networking, and security, and 16 years in senior roles. Currently VP of Production Engineering at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, he focuses on distributed management of large container infrastructures and production platforms for batch and runtime workloads. He has a deep history building and automating large-scale cloud environments—from Korea Telecom’s 20,000‑server cloud to private clouds and high‑traffic email platforms—and is skilled in infrastructure-as-code and CI pipelines. An early and pragmatic adopter of Chef, Jesse contributed meaningful route management and platform support fixes to the widely used chef/chef project, reflecting his emphasis on reliable network automation. He blends hands‑on debugging and performance tuning with leadership in SRE and platform engineering, often bringing BDD/TDD and best practices into operations teams. Colleagues know him for turning complex datacenter and cloud requirements into repeatable, auditable automation and resilient production systems.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CS, CS at Southern Oregon University
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Github Skills (11)
chef-client10
cgm10
chef-solo10
automation10
infrastructure10
automations10
devops10
ruby9
linux9
bash7
regex6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Jan 2010 - Sep 2010
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 5 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on improving the Chef Infra project's route management capabilities. They fixed bugs in the route provider, updated it to use the `ip route` command, and ensured proper handling of routes defined in CIDR notation. Additionally, they updated the platform to include xenserver as a supported platform and corrected how route files are named and managed. These changes demonstrate a focus on infrastructure automation and ensuring the correct configuration of network settings.
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
pantheon-systems/kube-gce-dns
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Kube system service to register services in GCE DNS
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 8 months
dnskubenamespacekubernetesplatfrastructure
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