Norm Jacobs
Senior Debugger Encoder Engineer at Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNorm Jacobs is a senior technologist and engineer with 17+ years of experience building and modernizing developer toolchains, system software, and enterprise architecture for companies like Cisco (via Yoh), TransUnion, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. He blends deep hands-on skills in device drivers, network protocols, and build automation with strategic leadership in open-source integration, CI/CD (Jenkins), and cloud selection across AWS, Azure and OpenStack. Known for driving alignment between internal development and upstream projects, he has practical open-source contributions—such as enhancing OpenIndiana’s build system with an unpack utility and dependency/license tooling—that reflect his focus on reproducible builds and developer productivity. At TransUnion and Oracle he shaped secure, scalable architectures and automated build/test pipelines while mentoring engineers and streamlining cross-team processes. Based in Northbrook, IL, he pairs meticulous root-cause analysis with a pragmatic approach to reducing complexity and improving recoverability in large-scale systems.
18 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (14)
archiver10
gnu-make10
archiving10
makefile10
archives10
build-automation10
python10
scripting9
shell9
script9
sh9
operating-system8
openssl8
automated-tests7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenIndiana/oi-userland
May 2010 - Feb 2018
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:497 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Norm contributed to the OpenIndiana userland by implementing a utility called unpack.py to uncompress and unpack archive files. They modified the make-rules and shared-macros, along with adding build-zone creation rules, including the creation of a template build zone. The user also incorporated features like dependency gathering tools, license and copyright information for IPS generation, and implemented time-based compiler chatter reduction.
build-systemopenindianasolarisillumosoperating-system
normjacobs/oi-userland
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
build-systemdistribution
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