# Jason Parraga > Staff Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jasonparraga Field: Software Domain: Platforms & Infrastructure Specialization: Cloud Native Distributed Systems, Observability, Security, Networking, Identity & Access Management Location: SF Bay Area Languages: Golang, Java/Kotlin, Python Technologies: gRPC, Kubernetes, Istio Service Mesh, Helm, AWS (EC2, SNS, SQS, RDS Aurora Postgres, Elasticache Redis, Active MQ, Elasticsearch), Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform Passions: - Building observable systems. - Programming things 'the right way'​. - Solving hard problems. - Building robust systems that can scale and withstand the change the future brings. - Building libraries, frameworks, and foundational services. - Being proud of what I build. SF Bay Area or remote only. Not interested in contracting. Direct hire only. Not interested in startups. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Stack AV Jan 2023 – Present Member of the Platform Infrastructure Engineering & Reliability team focusing on Compute Platform & Service Infrastructure. The compute platform team owns Kubernetes and everything that runs on top of it. I'm primarily responsible for Flyte & Armada. Flyte is a workflow orchestration system which schedules workloads to Armada, a multi-cluster batch queuing system that runs on Kubernetes. Together these systems run several hundreds of thousands of jobs per day and powers all batch workloads like data ingestion, simulation, distributed ML training on GPUs with Ray. I maintain these systems, scale them, and heavily modify them to improve observability, security, scalability, and general user experience. I have upstreamed quite a bit of open source work to support our compute engineering efforts. - Armada: https://github.com/armadaproject/armada/commits?author=Sovietaced - Armada Operator: https://github.com/armadaproject/armada-operator/commits?author=Sovietaced - Flyte (Nominated Committer): https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/commits?author=Sovietaced The service infrastructure team builds rock solid core services, libraries, and tooling so that application teams can land production grade code as efficiently, securely, and safely as possible. We act as the glue between the cloud application teams, cloud infrastructure teams, and the site reliability team. I have upstreamed some work to support our service infrastructure efforts. - I wrote HTTP client metrics for OTEL: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-go-contrib As an early hire I helped shape the foundation for backend engineering by driving our choice of backend language, API protocol, data format, and making it all work with Bazel. I built core services and middleware for authenticating, authorizing, and auditing gRPC requests. I built libraries to easily integrate OpenTelemetry metrics and traces throughout our services and their respective dependencies. ### Flyte Committer @ The Linux Foundation Jan 2024 – Present I review pull requests, provide feedback, and contribute changes to make Flyte more performant, secure, and robust. Some of these changes come from my work at Stack AV and some of them come from myself directly outside of work. My most notable contributions are the following: 1. Adding support for RBAC and tenant isolation 2. Driving development of the Ray plugin 3. Reducing k8s API & etcD load > 80% to improve scalability. You can find all of my commits here: 1. https://github.com/flyteorg/flyte/commits?author=Sovietaced 2. https://github.com/flyteorg/flytekit/commits?author=Sovietaced ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Cupertino, California, United States Special Projects Group Production Intent Cloud Services for Autonomous Systems ### Staff Software Engineer @ Argo AI Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States Staff software engineer on the transportation platform team with a focus on service infrastructure. Highlights below: - Technical lead & architect responsible for service infrastructure software engineering efforts. Cross functional leader for interactions with Product Security, Cloud Platform, and SRE teams. - Designed a multi-region AWS cloud architecture to achieve high availability in the event of a regional AWS service failure. - Designed and drove adoption of a custom IAM solution to support authentication, authorization, and accounting for API requests made from internal employees, internal service workloads, and external partners. Serves ~50M production requests per day - Lead efforts to improve cloud connectivity with vehicles. Added support for multi-carrier concurrent connections as well as support for connection priority to help prevent TCP head of line blocking issues. Reduced vehicle query failures across the entire fleet from 3% to near 0%. - Built instrumental common Java libraries for Redis, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and MQ usage in order to enforce best practices and add support for distributed tracing and custom Prometheus metrics. - Drove adoption of Helm charts to dramatically reduce kubernetes manifest code and make deployments less error prone. Reduced typical kubernetes manifest from 700 LOC to 80 LOC. - Drove efforts to build a protobuf monorepo and gRPC client artifact publishing pipeline used across the organization. - Leveraged Prometheus and Grafana to introduce rich service health dashboards. Integrated with SRE infrastructure to send PagerDuty alerts for elevated API error rates, elevated API latency, etc. - Helped the team grow from 5 to 20+ engineers by conducting 150+ tech screens and onsite interviews ### Senior Software Engineer @ Argo AI Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Big Switch Networks Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Acquired by Arista Networks $ANET ### Software Engineer @ Big Switch Networks Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara As a member of the controller platform team I am responsible for building the mission critical infrastructure that forms the basis of Big Switch Networks' products: Big Monitoring Fabric and Big Cloud Fabric. I like to describe the work I do as distributed systems work. I spend the majority of my time working on the following features... - Zero Touch Networking (Control Plane) - Authentication, Authorization, Accounting - Control Plane Encryption & Security Certification (Common Criteria, FIPS, UC-APL) - Network Device Handshaking and Connection Management (Control Plane) - Alarms & Alerts Infrastructure - BigDB, our proprietary database - Jenkins Build Infrastructure All of this work requires extremely careful consideration with regards to concurrency, scale, high availability, and upgrade in a clustered environment. Most of my work is done in Java and Python. Besides being a software engineer, I have launched and run the extracurricular activity program for summer interns for the past 3 years. This program takes the summer interns to several fun and unique Bay Area attractions to round out their internship experience outside the office. ### Technical Marketing Engineer @ Big Switch Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View After my internship, I accepted an offer to continue working on my intern project full time and take it to the next level. I took the command line tool and infrastructure from my intern project and built a user friendly website interface on top of it. We named it Big Switch Labs or BSN Labs and launched it to the public (https://labs.bigswitch.com). BSN Labs allowed prospective customers, new employees, and sales engineers to launch hands on demos of Big Switch Networks' product at the touch of a button. Today, BSN Labs boasts over 10,000 users and over 25,000 hands on demos launched. I built BSN Labs using Ruby on Rails and continued to build out the underlying infrastructure in Python. I spent endless nights building out new features and evolving my intern project into a real product. It was an incredible experience during a very volatile part of the company's history. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Big Switch Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View During my internship I wrote a command line tool and underlying infrastructure for spinning up and provisioning virtualized instances of Big Switch Networks' product on AWS. The command line tool was used by sales representatives at remote customer sites in order to provide hands on demos to customers. I built the command line tool in python and used the boto library to manage the lifecycles of VMs on EC2 and create VPCs for those VMs. ### OpenFlow Researcher, Application Developer @ IBM/Marist Joint Study Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Marist College Enterprise Computing Research Lab I worked closely with Big Switch Networks to write applications and modules for the Java based open source OpenFlow controller, Floodlight. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science in Minor in Information Technology Marist University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jparraga - Website: http://JasonParraga.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jasonparraga JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jasonparraga/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01