Jacqueline Graham

Overview

I've spent 26 years on platform engineering - first at HP, now at Beacon Mobility. Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 31% in two quarters. Before that: Comcast and Wells Fargo. I host a monthly meetup on platform engineering.

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Jan 2025 - Present
   Beacon Mobility · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Wrote the observability service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 543ms to 59ms.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 39 a week to 1.
2. Director of Engineering

   Apr 2023 - Jan 2025
   Comcast · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 26 million requests a day.
3. Platform Engineer

   Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
   Wells Fargo · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 23% in two quarters.
   • Wrote the Kubernetes service that now handles 35 million requests a day.
4. Director of Engineering

   Feb 2018 - Jun 2021
   Pinterest · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 37 a week to 4.
   • Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Platform Engineer

   Apr 2014 - Feb 2018
   HP · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 30 a week to 2.

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Education

1. Northwestern University

   BA, Information Technology
   1996 - 2000