Jesse Ward
Solutions Engineer at Google
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Ward is a seasoned solutions and site reliability engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed infrastructure across Google, Microsoft (GitHub), Salesforce, LinkedIn and BlackBerry. He combines hands-on systems engineering—automation in Go, Python, Salt/Ansible, and JVM tuning—with leadership in platform migrations, availability reporting, and SRE technology strategy. At LinkedIn he led a cross-org Java platform migration and built diagnostic tools for memory and cgroup-based health reporting; at GitHub on Azure he focused on AKS integrations and authoring infrastructure tooling. Based in Toronto, he excels at moving complex, performance-sensitive services from physical datacenters into cloud and container platforms, while keeping operational simplicity. Known for pragmatic automation and deep troubleshooting, he thrives on new technologies and high-impact, fast-paced challenges.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Programmer., Diploma Computer Programmer. at Conestoga College
Github Skills (187)
htpc10
golang10
discogs-api10
lastfm10
packet10
vscode10
development-environment10
csharp10
wireshark10
file-metadata10
ide10
subsonic10
plug10
plugin10
dpdk10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jesseward/plex-lastfm-scrobbler
Jun 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:9 releases, 87 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 5 months
plex-mediaplexscrobbleaudiolast-fm
jesseward/Serato-lib
Jul 2011 - Jan 2016
Provides a python wrapper as well as written documentation describing the Rane Serato Scratch crate, and library binary file-formats.
Contributions:8 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years 6 months
cratepythonrustpython-wrapperfile-formats
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