Solomon Jacobs
Software Engineer at Fraunhofer-Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Angewandte Materialforschung
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolSolomon Jacobs is a software engineer based in Munich with six years of experience building observability and monitoring systems, currently contributing to Checkmk where he architects OpenTelemetry metric backends and enhances Kubernetes monitoring features. He blends backend development and DevOps expertise—shipping Python and Rust components that add support for statefulsets, daemonsets, and improved Kubernetes collectors—while also maintaining synthetic monitoring via Robotmk and OMD orchestration. With a strong academic foundation in mathematics (MSc, University of Bonn) and hands-on research internships spanning NLP, image processing, and scientific data visualization, he brings analytical rigor to practical engineering problems. Notably, his open-source contributions to the widely used Checkmk project focus on simplifying metric structures and improving Kubernetes integrations, reflecting both systems-thinking and attention to operational detail.
6 years of coding experience
Master's Degree, Mathematics, Master's Degree, Mathematics at University of BonnBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics at Technische Universität DresdenLuisen-Gymnasium
Github Skills (22)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
develop10
python10
agent10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml8
json8
scripting7
script7
sh7
shell7
pydantic6
automations6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Checkmk/checkmk
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Checkmk - Best-in-class infrastructure & application monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 735 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Solomon primarily contributed to the Checkmk infrastructure monitoring project, with a focus on enhancements to Kubernetes-related checks and special agent functionality. They implemented features for monitoring CPU and memory resources, as well as adding support for stateful sets and daemon sets to collect metrics for the Cluster collector service. The user also made fixes for parsing and displaying data and worked on simplifying and improving the structure and naming of metrics and components related to Kubernetes integration.
checkmksecurityin-classinfrastructuremonitoring
SoloJacobs/test_ci
Sep 2023 - Dec 2024
Figure out how to use CLA bot with branch protection
Contributions:2 releases, 25 PRs, 125 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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