Jesse Yates
Co-Founder at Self
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJesse Yates is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 14 years building petabyte-scale distributed systems, currently co-founding a hardware-focused startup in Amsterdam that aims to push physics as the only limit to next-generation devices. Previously a Senior Staff Engineer at Tesla, he led streaming ETL and telemetry platforms processing trillions of events per day, drove Kubernetes migrations with zero downtime, and architected platform security innovations including a Kerberos-free Hadoop development model. He founded Fineo to simplify IoT analytics by removing ETL and delivering end-to-end secure, SQL-first data experiences, and has deep hands-on experience across HBase, Hadoop, NoSQL, and cloud analytics from roles at Salesforce and Booz Allen. Jesse combines big-data pedigree—including PMC/committer experience on Apache projects—with product-minded execution that turns scale and security constraints into measurable cost and privacy improvements. He blends technical depth with strategic advising and investment activity, uniquely straddling startup founding, enterprise engineering, and platform-level operational excellence.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (93)
hbase10
sql-query10
reactive10
akka10
sql10
alpakka10
akka-streams10
presto10
database10
kafka10
java10
hive10
lag10
enterprise-integration10
kafka-connector10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fineoio/fineo-client
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:198 pushes, 36 branches, 8 tags in 6 months
booz-allen-hamilton/culvert
Aug 2011 - Jan 2012
Secondary indexing for structured and unstructured data in Big Table style databases.
Contributions:12 commits in 5 months
secondarystructuredindexingdatabasesdatabase
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