Robert Jacob
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Kreuzlingen, Thurgau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRobert Jacob is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native backend and DevOps systems, currently at Red Hat in Switzerland. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes operators and logging stacks, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like OpenShift's cluster-logging-operator and Grafana Loki to improve logging initialization, secure token handling, and platform integration. Previously a principal engineer at HolidayCheck, he progressed through hands-on roles delivering resilient service discovery and HAProxy automation for distributed systems. Robert combines practical backend development with solid test-driven practices, having refactored critical service logic and added comprehensive tests in production tooling. He has a B.Eng. in Computer Software Engineering and a track record of bridging platform engineering with operator-level automation. A less obvious strength is his focus on subtle operational edge cases—service probes, endpoints, and secure integrations—that keep large-scale logging and observability systems reliable.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)
English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
kubernetes10
apidoc10
testing10
go10
api10
cloki10
kubernetes-pods10
logging10
lokijs10
devops10
operator10
yaml9
openshift9
haproxy9
vector9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:534 reviews, 24 commits, 170 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the operator functionality of the Loki project, focusing on Kubernetes-related configurations and deployments. They addressed issues related to service names, endpoints for probes, and overall configurations for various components such as querier, ingester, and compactor. The user also updated dependencies, including Go, and updated the Loki operand version. Additionally, they made changes to integrate with the OpenShift platform, which involved configuring and updating the gateway arguments.
prometheuslokigrafanaloggingcloudnative
openshift/cluster-logging-operator
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
Operator to support logging subsystem of OpenShift
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:114 reviews, 30 commits, 77 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the OpenShift cluster logging operator by updating dependencies and refactoring code related to logging initialization. They updated the `logerr` dependency and refactored the initialization of the main loggers, including changes to the logger utility. Additionally, the user made adjustments to support the Loki output in both vector and fluentd configuration, focusing on features like secure token handling and service account integration. Their work involved modifications across various components, indicating a focus on operator functionality and integrating various logging store options.
loggingopenshiftoperatorfluentdvector
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