Jesse Wiley
Lead Infrastructure Architect at MakerBot®
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarJesse Wiley is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating high‑scale, secure server environments, currently based in Los Angeles. He has led infrastructure for blockchain projects at the Stacks Open Internet Foundation and Blockstack PBC, contributing backend and performance-focused changes to the Stacks blockchain and deploying decentralized storage and SSL automation for Gaia. His background spans cloud and air‑gapped EC2 networking at AWS, global redundant backends for mobile at startups, and hands‑on Unix/AIX operations in enterprise settings, giving him a rare blend of low‑level systems expertise and platform‑scale engineering. Known for pragmatic automation, monitoring, and security-first virtualization, he often optimizes database and transaction workflows for measurable performance gains.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
docker10
sqlite10
back-end-development10
stack10
bash10
dockers10
blockchain10
rust10
nginx10
scripting9
cicd9
bitcoins9
crypto9
bitcoin9
decentralization9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stacks-network/gaia
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
A decentralized high-performance storage system
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 71 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jesse primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. They made significant changes to Docker-related configurations, including setting up and configuring Let's Encrypt for SSL. Additionally, the user updated build scripts and configurations, likely to streamline the build and deployment processes. They also made updates to the configuration files and added scripts to automate the configuration based on the environment variables.
rustdecentralizedperformancestoragehigh-performance
stacks-network/stacks-core
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
The Stacks blockchain implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 491 reviews, 63 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesse contributed to the Stacks blockchain implementation by modifying core database interactions and adjusting transaction processing logic. The commits show a focus on database performance, including the use of `mmap_size` to load the database into memory and optimizations to Bitcoin transaction confirmation attempts. They also made changes related to Prometheus metrics, indicating work on system monitoring and alignment with the `/v2/info` endpoint.
appsblockstackdnsrustserverless
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