Jack Kawell

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DISC Type : ci

Senior Software Engineer at solo.io

Pensacola Metropolitan Area, United States

Overview

Jack is a Senior Software Engineer at solo. io, specializing in distributed systems, SRE, and platform engineering. With a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, he focuses on Kubernetes and Golang. Colleagues describe him as having infectious positivity and the skills to back it up.

Outside of work, Jack is passionate about self-hosting, homelabbing, and building open-source tools to help others take back control of their digital lives. He enjoys constantly learning new technologies, with a recent interest in NixOS and Rust, and created the open-source platform Home Cloud for easy-to-use self-hosting.

During his Masters program, Jacks research focused on human-robot interaction and robotic life-long learning.

Personality Overview

Curious

Example Seeker

Value Driven

They are likely to ask many questions and look heavily for supporting information.  They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Topics They Care About

Distributed Systems
A primary focus of his career and personal projects. He created "Draft, " an open-source toolkit for building distributed systems.
Platform Engineering
States this as one of his current core professional interests and specialties, working on the Gloo Mesh team at solo. io.
Open Source Tools
He is the founder of Steady Bytes and created the open-source platforms Home Cloud and Draft.

Media Appearances

Jack has no verified media appearances

Work History

6-2025
Senior Software Engineer at solo.io
5-2024
Founder & Senior Engineer at Steady Bytes
10-2022 - 5-2024
Senior Software Engineer at Fluid Truck
4-2022 - 9-2022
Senior Software Engineer at Circadence
12-2020 - 4-2022
Software Engineer III at Circadence

Education

2018 - 2020
M.S. Computer Science from University of Colorado Boulder
2014 - 5-2018
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Samford University

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Insights For Selling To Jack

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Invite them for a social do but don’t rely solely on the relationship
  • Build rapport, it will come handy to handle hard questions later
  • Share testimonials from known people and give multiple examples of product value

DONT's

  • Avoid making offhand commitments
  • Don’t be too objective but make sure to pad your storytelling with data points
  • Don’t brush off any concerns, take all questions seriously

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Jack is

  • Proven value, strong testimonials are important to them, relationships will have some weightage.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Jack

  • They are practical yet friendly, don’t expect a clear no very often.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Jack move?

  • They like to analyze well and can take their time to reach any decisions.
  • Can Jack take some risk or not?

  • They evaluate their decisions systematically and are less likely to take risks.

You And Jack

Personality Compatibility


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