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Jeffrey Hulten

Builder obsessed with resilient software, thoughtful teams, and products that make people faster.

Senior Systems Engineer @ Getty Images, currently shepherding Kubernetes-based artifact management and build tooling.

Snapshot

  • Leads Getty Images' Kubernetes and build-tooling platform workstreams in AWS.
  • Steers ambitious ideas toward reliable, maintainable implementations balancing speed with resilience.
  • Blends systems thinking, AI curiosity, and product empathy to keep solutions practical.
  • Enjoys hands-on prototyping just as much as shaping long-term engineering strategy.
  • Champions human collaboration, deep code reviews, and observability-first cultures.

Work I Gravitate Toward

Area What excites me
Distributed & event-driven systems Turning messy real-world signals into trustworthy, low-latency decisions.
Developer experience Building tooling, guidelines, and automation that let teams move confidently.
Kubernetes platforms & cloud build systems Operating clusters, supply chains, and delivery guardrails that keep releases safe and fast.

Operating Principles

  1. Bias for observability – instrument early so every release comes with data, not suspense.
  2. Design for change – modular interfaces, generous test coverage, and CI/CD that keeps refactors safe.
  3. Document the why – decisions, playbooks, and architecture notes live beside the code.

Current Focus

  • Deploying build tools like Gitlab Enterprise and Artifactory on AWS EKS with sane defaults and guardrails.
  • Hardening platform foundations: API boundaries, golden paths, and progressive delivery.

Toolbox at a Glance

  • Systems: distributed services, streaming pipelines, edge & IoT orchestration.
  • Platform: Kubernetes (EKS), build systems, CI/CD, IaC, observability, incident response, SLO automation.

Let's Collaborate

  • Open to chatting about platform modernization or developer productivity bets.
  • Drop a note via the contact channels below (or suggest your favorite community) and let’s brainstorm.

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