Jonathan Freedman, Infrastructure & Resilience Strategist
Architecting scalable platforms and high-availability systems while bridging the gap between hardware constraints and cloud flexibility
http://jonathanfreedman.bio/
Oakland, California, US

Employment History

Porter Labs
March 2025 through Present
Chief Technology Officer
Leading Hardware and Software Engineering.
  • Forging partnerships with an eye towards accessible open source pet tech hardware.
  • Developing opereational tooling for lean backend stack.
  • Prototyping of small scale fabricated designs using off-the-shelf and 3d printed hardware.
imgix
May 2019 through November 2021
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Scaling of Site Reliability Engineering Team, San Francisco, CA
  • Grew Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) SRE team from three to seven people.
  • Facilitated migration between physical data centers and then into Google Cloud.
imgix
September 2018 through May 2019
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sustainable Scaling of Image Rendering Pipeline. San Francisco, CA
  • Operational support of a multi-layer HTTP Content Delivery Network.
  • Development of Ansible based infrastructure orchestration on top of Intel and Apple hardware.
  • Migrated render pipeline from complex asynchronous model to layered HTTP services including the open source Varnish and HAProxy systems.
  • Developed and maintained custom systems tooling built on languages including Python, shell, LUA
Burning Man Project
2019 through Present
Gate, Perimeter, and Exodus Logistics Crew
Enabling eighty thousand people to safely enter and leave Black Rock City, NV
  • Seasonal work building and removing infrastructure that enables ingress and egress for tens of thousands of vehicles.
  • Surveying, construction, and removal of road that leads to the event site in remote Nevada high desert.
  • Assorted small-scale construction and planning tasks throughout the year.
Autodesk
October 2015 through January 2018
Senior DevOps Engineer
Operational support of Cloud Platform . San Francisco, CA
  • Nurtured inner source communities around management of operational secrets and continuous deployment built on Hashicorp Vault and Jenkins.
  • Development of continuous deployment strategies that consider non-homogeneous sets of applications and targets.
  • Inner source support and development of custom tooling based on the Chef platform.
  • Evangelisation of inner and open source approaches to challenges at scale.
  • Involved with implementation of ITIL based Change Management and SOC2 compliance automation on the Service Now platform.
Syntertainment, Inc
May 2015 through September 2015
DevOps Engineer
Release Pipeline and Production Operations. Berkeley, CA
  • Developed build and release pipeline using Ansible for NodeJS components on AWS EC2 infrastructure.
  • Implemented AWS Auto-scaling with Ansible, Packer, and CloudFormation.
  • Instrumented production systems using NewRelic, and CloudWatch.
Rally Health
July 2013 through March 2015
Operations Engineer
Continuous Integration in an Idempotent Chef world. San Francisco, CA
  • Work with the Operations team to ensure continuous delivery of products with a high degree of availability.
  • Maintain automation solutions (Chef/Jenkins) to support our JVM and Python stack on the AWS/EC2 cloud platform.
  • Develop internal tools in Python and Ruby to support the product build and deployment pipelines.
ExactTarget
November 2010 through August 2013
Senior Software Engineer
High capacity social media data ingestion. San Francisco, CA
  • Support of SAAS product by developing a real time data ingestion system tied into major social media networks.
  • Emphasized continuous delivery of live Erlang based system, pushing frequent releases a day without down time.
  • Migrated SAAS product from the AWS public cloud into a private VMWare based system.
  • Helped support additional aspects of the SAAS product including but not limited to NodeJS, Ruby, and PostgreSQL.
Ludia, Inc
May 2009 through August 2010
Lead Server Developer
Highly available backend web services for online games. Montréal, QC
  • Worked in MontrĂ©al office providing continuously deployed backend systems for two game offerings.
  • Introduced networked software services written in C and Python in order to support a variety of game offerings.
  • These services were deployed on our private VMWare system and the public AWS cloud.
  • Responsible for implementing a variety of payment systems based on leading providers.
Wello Horld, Inc
March 2008 through March 2009
Lead Backend Developer
Custom routing in XMPP systems. Brooklyn, NY
  • Worked remotely and at Brooklyn / San Francisco offices to implement and support a robust backend.
  • System was developed in Erlang and made heavy use of Standardized XMPP with custom event filtering software.
ctc TrainCanada
March 2006 through November 2007
Lead Technical Instructor
Corporate technical education. Halifax, NS
  • Programming courses included Perl, Python, Java.
  • Methodology courses included ITIL and Extreme Programming.
  • Other courses included UNIX administration and network/computer security.
Pleiades Consulting
January 2005 through December 2007
VP Operations
Operations and Development. Halifax, NS
  • Worked with academic researchers on automatically scaling grid-based computing resources.
  • Day to day operations of company ranging from business development to financial obligations.
  • Open Source work in the Virtual World space to support immersive learning environments.
Thor Solutions
April 2003 through Decmeber 2004
Security Analyst
Penetration testing and corporate education. Halifax, NS
  • Involved in remote and on-site vulnerability and penetration testing.
  • Worked on a custom Red Hat derived operating system targeting early ARM based systems.
  • Joint creation of security curriculum delivered to variety of clients.
Pleiades Consulting
November 2001 through March 2003
Network Administrator
Network and Systems Administration. Halifax, NS
  • Deployed and maintained VPN across multiple geographic regions.
  • Monitored and supported production and development systems written in Python, .NET, and JVM.
  • Assisted in software life cycle for learning content management system product.

Technology Skillsets

Infrastructure Automation
Proficient
  • Chef
  • Ansible
  • Hashicorp Terraform
  • Hashicorp Vault
Web Delivery
Expert
  • nginx
  • HAProxy
Web Delivery
Proficient
  • Varnish
  • Apache
Web Frameworks
Proficient
  • Django
Web Frameworks
Moderate
  • Drupal
  • WordPress
Databases
Proficient
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
Databases
Moderate
  • MongoDB
  • CouchDB
Continuous Delivery
Expert
  • Jenkins
  • Immutable artifacts
  • Build/Release pipelines
Web Delivery
Moderate
  • Tomcat
  • WSGI
Monitoring
Proficient
  • Sensu
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Logstash
Monitoring
Moderate
  • Graphite
  • NewRelic
  • Splunk
  • Nagios
  • ZenOSS
InfoSec
Moderate
  • Compliance automation
  • Log analysis
  • Operational secrets
Continuous Delivery
Proficient
  • Travis CI
  • Team City
  • Artifactory
Virtual Computing
Proficient
  • Amazon Web Services
  • libvirt
Virtual Computing
Moderate
  • Virtual Box
  • QEMU
  • Hyper-V
  • VMWare
Compliance
Moderate
  • SOC2
  • HIPPA
ITIL
Proficient
  • Change Management
  • Incident / Problem Management
  • Service Level Management
Software Development
Expert
  • Erlang
  • Python
  • Shell
Software Development
Proficient
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
Software Development
Moderate
  • C
  • Java
  • Go
  • Perl
Version Control
Expert
  • git (self-hosted)
  • GitHub
Version Control
Moderate
  • SVN
  • Mercurial
Containers
Proficient
  • Docker
  • kubernetes
json (schema)