Jessiah Ratliff
Staff Engineer at Slack
Bend, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorJessiah Ratliff is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput services and leading engineering teams at companies like Slack and New Relic. He blends hands-on backend expertise—Elixir/Phoenix, Kafka stream processing, Kubernetes, and cloud infra—with a strong reliability engineering mindset to prevent regressions and outages. Comfortable across stacks from Ruby on Rails to Erlang, he focuses on shaping engineering process, release strategy, and observability to improve team delivery. As a former founder and project lead, he pairs technical depth with product empathy and experience managing cross-functional stakeholders. Based in Bend, Oregon, he gravitates toward roles where he can mentor teams, drive technical strategy, and pilot pragmatic experiments with new technologies. Notably, his background includes solo-built, performance-tuned consumer projects that surfaced an early practice of optimizing API caching and asynchronous processing.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (132)
cli9
shell9
bash8
php8
zsh8
python7
rails7
docker7
macos7
ionic-native7
cli-app7
phonegap6
sdk6
oh-my-zsh6
prototyping6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jessiahr/bolt
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:51 commits, 12 PRs, 39 pushes in 7 months
talentfaultelixirjob-queueelixir-lang
jessiahr/alvord
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
bash profile manager
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 5 months
shellprofile-managerbash-profilebash
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