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.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Programmer., Diploma, Computer Programmer. at Conestoga College
Github Skills (132)
python10
metadata10
plex10
htpc10
audio10
discogs-api10
mp310
lastfm10
jellyfin10
vscode10
development-environment10
csharp10
file-metadata10
ide10
plugin10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jesseward/go-discogs
May 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
golangapidiscogsdiscogs-api
jesseward/discogs-banner
Aug 2014 - Jan 2016
Creates an image collage from the album thumbnails in your Discogs collection.
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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