Senior · Staff Engineer
I build systems a stranger can run.
Nothing I build needs me in the room. New teammates, human or agent, ship on day one.
Boston, MA · open to relocation · text me at 720.453.3994
The receipts
The headline comes from Accessible Ops, a spec I co-authored.
Thousands
of Cassandra nodes kept boring
Dozens of production deploys a day at Protectwise, under a product that could not miss data.
3 days
to retrain an org
Every CyberGRX engineer shipping on a new deploy process.
$10M+/yr
of production AWS
Petabyte scale at Protectwise, acquired by Verizon.
Since 2015
production Kubernetes
CoreOS and fleet, before kubeadm existed.
$500K/yr
revenue at the steakhouse I owned
A team of 7, my name on the P&L.
100%
agent-written code
I maintain Fountain, a developer platform for running agent fleets. It was built by the agents it runs and ships under its own GitHub account.
acquired Protectwise
staff engineer, 2022–2025
acquired Block Party
when it was CyberGRX
SOUTH PARK COMMONS
backed Ravi
“Jake is a force for good unlike any other. He migrated our infra to a cheaper and more scalable system, crafted a CI pipeline that accelerated deploys by 30x, and taught the whole company how to make data-driven decisions by building an entire product analytics stack. And that was just his first 6 months.”
Aaron Biller, Director of Platform Engineering, Cloaked