Jacob Pollack Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

London, England, Gb

- Acting as Lead Site Reliability Engineer for our newly established SRE consultancy team which is tasked with advising application teams, assessing observability platforms, and making monitoring and observability services available for use by internal teams.- Developed a command line utility using Python and Jinja to automate the process of generating Markdown documentation for our library of Azure DevOps pipeline templates. This utility is accompanied by a pipeline template which is referenced in each CI pipeline that is associated with our various pipeline template libraries. This allows the documentation for each pipeline template to be automated via the CI pipeline and acts as a check to ensure each parameter of the pipeline templates is documented for customers.- Designed and implemented an AWS developer accelerator in Azure DevOps which provides application teams a set of resources (Docker image, pipelines, variable groups, etc.) that includes a prepopulated Git repository which contains YAML pipeline files that reference centrally maintained Azure DevOps pipeline templates that I developed. This solution makes it easy for application teams to deploy their application to AWS using CloudFormation and Ansible with minimal knowledge required.- Developed a library of Azure DevOps pipeline templates to automate the build and release process of SAP UI5 applications. The pipelines allow SAP administrators to ensure the entire SDLC is standardized, traceable, and secure across the 100+ applications that use the pipelines.- Architected and implemented an automated deployment solution to release new and updated mobile applications to Google Play, Microsoft Intune, and VMware AirWatch using Azure DevOps release pipelines and PowerShell.- Supported our internal cloud migration team by providing technical guidance and support as they worked to migrate workloads to the cloud using our product offerings and services.

London, England, Gb

- Migrated on-prem application to Amazon Web Services (AWS) which culminated in a total cost savings of $11,000.- Worked with Architecture team to develop infrastructure and environments suitable for maintaining cloud-based applications using a DevOps methodology.- Reduced costs and increased application deployment speed via the development of Ansible roles and playbooks.- Supported onboarding of new technologies and ways of working by providing detailed documentation and knowledge transfer sessions.- Collected and analyzed application performance to scale resources efficiently and reduce costs.- Supported Summer interns by providing mentorship and technical guidance.Implemented and maintained production AWS infrastructure for multiple applications.- Worked with Tooling team to vet, implement, and identify best practices for technologies involved in the CI/CD pipeline.- Presented talks on various topics including Cloud cost saving strategies, efficient workflows, and enterprise communication platforms.

- Configured, benchmarked, and administered multiple server clusters.- Systems Administrator responsible for maintaining Red Hat systems.- Collaborated on multi-physics simulation software designed for use in HPC environments.- Refactored heart modeling code for enhanced extensibility.- Mentored and collaborated with students in HPC summer program.

- Researched chemotaxis systems in Pseudomonas.- Utilized various genomic databases to analyze key genetic markers.- Developed Python scripts to expedite and enhance gene analysis.

- Performed an array of lab procedures to produce site-specific mutations in yeast.- Assisted a small group of researchers in performing various experiments.

B.S. Computer Science

B.S. Microbiology