Jon Schaeffer
Site Reliability Engineer at Fastly
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Schaeffer is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable, cost-efficient cloud-native systems and developer tooling. Currently at Fastly after driving DevOps improvements at Gumband, he has a track record of accelerating developer velocity through ephemeral environments, CI/CD automation, and local dev optimizations like replacing docker-compose with Tilt. He pairs systems-level SRE practices with practical scripting and automation—writing rollback tooling in Go, PowerShell fleet management, and SQL-backed reporting to inform product decisions. Jon’s work has delivered measurable impact, including a 20% cloud cost reduction and significant reductions in build times and mean time to detection. Based in Pittsburgh, he combines a dual background in computer science and music with a customer-focused mindset honed in earlier helpdesk and sales roles. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic infrastructure improvements that make teams faster and more resilient.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Music & Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Music & Computer Science at Allegheny College
Github Skills (18)
patroni9
database8
dbaas8
raspbian8
postgresql8
ubuntu7
automation7
debian6
htpc6
docker-compose5
docker5
operator4
kubernetes-operator2
emqx2
javascript2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JonSchaeffer/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
JonSchaeffer/k3s-homelab
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:5 reviews, 107 PRs, 260 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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