Eric Jizba
Senior Software Engineer at Grow Therapy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Jizba is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and deployment infrastructure, currently at Grow Therapy after a long tenure at Microsoft. He specializes in Azure, Spinnaker, and CI/CD automation, contributing notable fixes and features across high-profile repos like azure-functions, azure-pipelines-tasks, and Spinnaker’s deck and halyard. Comfortable across backend, DevOps and full-stack work, he has improved deployment lifecycles, added Azure support to complex installers, and enhanced developer experiences in VS Code extensions. Eric’s contributions often bridge user-facing UI improvements with deep infrastructure changes—e.g., automating Spinnaker installs on Kubernetes and adding osx-arm64 support to core tooling. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings practical expertise in production reliability, build systems, and cross-team integration. He holds a Computer Science background from Northwestern and a track record of turning deployment complexity into repeatable, user-friendly automation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (61)
azure-devops-server10
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
cloud-computing10
testing10
net10
configuration-management10
azure-functions10
typescript10
dotnet10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
java10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-azurefunctions
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
Azure Functions extension for VS Code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 releases, 209 reviews, 935 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric contributed to the core functionality and testing of the Azure Functions extension for VS Code. Their work included fixing bugs related to function app creation, particularly with beta settings, and improving test coverage. They also enhanced the developer experience by adding a setting to automatically manage the installation of pylint, and setting environment variables for more effective C# debugging.
azure-functionsvscodeazurefunctionsserverless
Azure/azure-devops-utils
Mar 2017 - Jul 2017
Azure DevOps Utilities
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 34 commits, 56 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric's commits primarily focused on improving the automation and usability of Spinnaker deployment scripts within the context of Azure DevOps. They refactored existing scripts to be more user-friendly, adding better parameter handling, README files, and splitting sections for improved organization. The user also made significant changes to the quickstart templates, integrating Halyard for Spinnaker deployment and automating the Kubernetes configuration process, demonstrating expertise in managing the deployment lifecycle. They also worked on the Jenkins setup by making modifications in configuration as well as installing new plugins to extend its capability.
azure-devopsazuredevopsjenkinsspinnaker
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