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Hi there, I'm Jake Hall. This is my little presence on the internet.
I'm an engineering leader, obsessed with automation, security and a test-first approach. Most of my work is clearing the runway — getting tooling, feedback loops and communication out of the way so teams can move fast without breaking the things that matter. I've written a fair bit about that.
I care more about products than projects. Delivering on time and on budget matters, but only if the person on the other end ends up with something genuinely good — which means working closely with senior stakeholders on strategy, and breaking down the silos that get in the way.
And I try to build environments where it's safe to get things wrong. That's where most of the useful learning actually happens.
Selected writing
- An obsessive commitment to automation Three manual pain points on a project, automated away — and why the laziest engineers often make the best ones.
- You're using the word DevOps badly It's a cultural approach to engineering — not a job title, a team, or something you can hire.
- Shut DEV down… at night? Terminating non-production every evening cut the hosting bill — and forced a recovery strategy worth having.
- Be rid of database passwords! Vault's dynamic secrets: credentials that don't exist until you ask for them, and revoke themselves when you stop.