Jim Dewaard
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at NVIDIA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Dewaard is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale cloud-native systems across AWS, Cruise, and NVIDIA. He specializes in Kubernetes, storage and networking, having led container strategy and platform automation at Target and contributed operational improvements to Karpenter, the Kubernetes node autoscaler. Jim brings deep expertise in infrastructure reliability—tuning ephemeral storage, enhancing logging and release pipelines—to make distributed systems more stable and maintainable. His background spans systems design to customer-facing engineering roles at AWS, giving him a rare blend of technical depth and operational pragmatism. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs practical automation skills with an emphasis on educating teams to run resilient platforms. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent focus on observability and build/release reliability, which repeatedly surfaces in his open-source and production work.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Information Technology, Associate of Science (AS), Information Technology at Iowa Lakes Community College
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
error-handling10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
logging9
automation9
automations9
release-management9
infrastructure-as-code8
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/karpenter-provider-aws
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Karpenter is a Kubernetes Node Autoscaler built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 24 commits, 35 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the project by implementing logging enhancements for error handling within the core functionalities, demonstrating expertise in debugging and improving application stability. They also worked on infrastructure-related tasks, such as adjusting the ephemeral storage settings, and they made changes to the build and release process. The user's work is focused on enhancing the operational aspects of Karpenter, ensuring its reliability and maintainability.
karpenterkubernetes-node
dewjam/karpenter
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and simplicity. https://karpenter.sh
Contributions:47 pushes, 20 branches in 8 months
hands-onkarpenterautoscalingperformancek8s
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