Jon Polom
Lead Platform Engineer
Warren, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Polom is a Lead Platform Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and scaling engineering solutions in the defense and healthcare sectors. Based in Warren, Michigan, he has progressed through technical and leadership roles at the U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center, moving from student and process engineering into senior design, simulation, and platform leadership. His cross-disciplinary background spans prototype development and mechanical design through to software and infrastructure engineering, enabling pragmatic systems thinking across hardware-software boundaries. Jon contributes to open-source tooling for infrastructure automation—improving pyinfra’s systemd integration—which reflects his focus on reliable operational tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex, safety- and mission-critical requirements into auditable, deployable systems. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and brings a practical, process-oriented approach to large-scale engineering challenges.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering at Oakland University
Github Skills (9)
configuration-management10
systemd10
infrastructure10
python10
remote-execution9
manage4
docker4
dockers4
cloud-manager4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pyinfra-dev/pyinfra
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
pyinfra turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. Execute ad-hoc commands and write declarative operations. Target SSH servers, local machine and Docker containers. Fast and scales from one server to thousands.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 17 commits, 2 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Jon primarily contributed to the management and enhancement of the `pyinfra` project's systemd integration. Their work involved adding support for systemctl user and machine flags, fixing issues related to service daemon reload, and creating helper functions to manage systemctl commands. The commits focused on refining systemd commands, including revising command options and reformatting commands, improving the overall interaction with systemd.
pythonautomatescloud-managementconfiguration-managementservice-deployment
tuffnatty/debian10-zfs
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:36 commits in 6 months
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