Jesse Spears
Site Reliability Engineer at Mercor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Spears is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience designing secure, auditable infrastructure and reducing breach risk through infra-as-code and principled architecture. He writes infra-layer services in Go and Python, administers Linux fleets configured with Starlark, and specializes in vulnerability management, SSH certificate/CA workflows, and production user account controls. Jesse has served as incident commander for high-impact outages, blending hands-on remediation with developer outreach to improve long-term reliability. His background includes deep vulnerability research and exploit development across multiple ISAs and a decade of SRE work at companies including Uber and Onehouse, giving him an uncommon combination of offensive security insight and production engineering rigor. Based in San Francisco, he brings military-grade discipline from prior Marine roles to building practical, compliance-ready security controls at scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (32)
e-mail10
parsing10
mailgun10
mime10
python9
php9
load-balancer8
ssh8
etcd7
proxy7
rest7
dkim6
grpc6
gmail6
archlinux6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mailgun/gospf
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
golangpolicysendersender-policy-framework
vulcand/vulcand-docs
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Vulcand documentation
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 months
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