Jesse Portnoy
Head Programmer at packman.io
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJesse Portnoy is a pragmatic Head Programmer with 12+ years of hands‑on experience modernizing and packaging software across Linux, Solaris and AIX environments. He blends low‑level C and GNU toolchain expertise with PHP, JavaScript, Dart and shell scripting to port legacy systems, build reliable CI/CD pipelines, and migrate aging web stacks to modern platforms. Known for turning packaging and deployment headaches into repeatable RPM/DEB and containerized workflows, he’s shipped build automation for projects like Kaltura and contributed build/CI work on the nginx-vod-module. Comfortable in DevOps, production ops and community-facing roles, he pairs technical depth (Chef/Ansible, GCP/AWS) with clear collaboration across engineering and support teams. Based in the UK, he runs packman.io to help teams modernize legacy codebases and dependency chains.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
English, Hebrew, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
automation10
bash10
docker10
build-system10
automations10
nginx10
dockers10
cicd10
streaming9
travis-ci9
video-streaming9
mp48
hlsl7
ffmpeg6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kaltura/nginx-vod-module
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
NGINX-based MP4 Repackager
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:25 commits in 17 days
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on setting up and configuring the build and deployment environment for the NGINX-based MP4 repackager. Their contributions include creating and modifying build scripts (`build.sh` and `travis_build.sh`) to integrate dependencies, specify build configurations, and enable CI/CD integration. The user also upgraded the Nginx version and enabled threads, indicating a focus on build process and system configuration.
mp4nginxvodhlsdash
kaltura/platform-continuous-integration
Feb 2014 - Feb 2015
Continuous Integration for the Kaltura Platform - Packaging, Build, Deploy, Test and Distribute
Contributions:5 commits in 1 year
continuous-integrationkaltura
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