Jesse Swidler
Staff Software Engineer at Observe, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Swidler is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with over a decade of experience building cloud-native SaaS products and developer-facing infrastructure at startups and scaleups like Okta, Udacity, AKASA, and Observe. He combines full-stack fluency—Go, Typescript/React, Java, Kubernetes, Postgres, Elasticsearch—with deep systems experience provisioning half a million VMs per week and designing secure, high-performance backends. As a former CTO he’s run product, hiring, and customer-facing ops for a venture-backed startup, giving him hands-on product instincts beyond pure engineering. Jesse has a track record of shipping developer tools and education-focused platforms that materially improved user outcomes, and he often bridges gaps between UX-driven frontends and robust cloud infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.8 GPA, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.8 GPA at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMachine Learning Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Nanodegree, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
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Github Skills (84)
visualizations10
elastic10
kibana10
matlab9
linux9
controller9
elasticsearch-cluster9
ruby9
elasticsearch9
observability9
tar9
graphql-query8
zip8
git-repo8
simulator8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
udacity/graphb
May 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
golangquerygraphql-toolsbuilderquery-builder
jswidler/lockgit
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
A CLI tool for storing encrypted data in a git repo
Contributions:15 releases, 2 commits, 14 PRs in 1 day
golangsecuritystoringencryptedcli-tool
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