Steven Jacobs
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Jacobs is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud infrastructure, currently focused at Akamai after progressing through technical and leadership roles at Linode. He combines a strong operational pedigree—from customer-facing support to lead DevOps responsibilities—with a business foundation in finance (BBA, Temple University), enabling pragmatic, cost-aware reliability decisions. Steven has a track record of improving service quality and customer satisfaction while scaling platform operations and mentoring engineering teams. Comfortable across systems engineering, automation, and incident response, he brings both technical depth and stakeholder-facing communication skills honed early in customer support. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex operational needs into measurable improvements and to bridge engineering priorities with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance at Fox School of Business at Temple University
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Github Skills (79)
cloud-manager10
react-redux10
terraform10
hosting10
akamai10
tanstack-react-query10
vault10
linode10
typescript10
tanstack-router10
terraform-provider10
kitchen10
privacy10
api-gateway10
react-router-v410
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
stvnjacobs/go-discover
Mar 2019 - Jun 2023
Discover nodes in cloud environments
Contributions:3 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
discovergcpnodescloudkubernetes
stvnjacobs/manager
Nov 2016 - May 2023
The Linode manager
Contributions:49 PRs, 192 pushes, 59 branches in 6 years 6 months
linode-managerlinode
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