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Jake’s Software Engineering Qualifications
Experience level: Executive
100+ Software Engineering clients
I am smarter than some people, but maybe not as smart as the smartest people. If you're dumber than me, then maybe I can help you be smarter, or maybe you'll end up making me dumber. Either way, it'll be a learning journey where we land somewhere together.
Jake can help with:
Architecture
Behavioral Interview Prep
Frontend Frameworks
LinkedIn Review
Networking Strategy
Promotion Strategy
Resume Review
Salary Negotiation
Skill Building
Technical Interview Prep
Work Experience
VP of Engineering
Leland
February 2025 - Present
• Spearheaded the aggressive scaling of Leland's offerings, enhancing both breadth and depth. • Led the launch of the company's first AI offerings, leveraging AI development patterns and tools heavily. • Elevated code quality and shipping speed all focused on driving significant business outcomes. • Focused on whatever it takes to win, whether that's writing code, managing data and engineering, or collaborating with executive partners on business initiatives.
Director, Software Engineering
Tomo
July 2021 - February 2025
• Lead multiple teams in the pursuit of disrupting the real estate and mortgage industries by treating everyone with humanity and offering them the experiences they deserve. Our NPS is the highest in the industry. • Led the development of a new real estate portal from inception to a production launch in 3 months by embracing those beautiful startup constraints. You can view it at tomo.com. • Leading continued efforts to iterate on our "real estate portal" at tomo.com, adding features, experimenting with differentiation, and optimizing performance -- we have industry leading PSI numbers Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Software Architect
Tomo
December 2020 - July 2021
• Founding Engineer - architected the FE system including framework, libraries, CSS solutions, testing patterns, e2e testing, i18n, component library ETC. • Worked with other engineers to architect the backend microservice architecture (python/go), data (PG), auth (cognitio), SFN orchestration for async human in the loop flows, and integrated with a number of vendors. • Built the call center experience in Twilio Flex, orchestrated nurture workflows from HubSpot, and ensured the flow of data and measurement in databricks/snowflake/amplitude. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Executive Vice President
Claravine
July 2018 - October 2020
• First engineering hire, personally recruited a world-class engineering team full of talented and engaged engineers who love their jobs. • Helped the company raise millions of dollars in funding by pitching investors, presenting at board meetings, and contributing to the executive team. • Drove culture initiatives that allowed us to retain nearly 100% of employees, and resulted in high eNPS scores. • Worked extensively cross department to triple company revenue while maintaining nearly 100% customer retention. • Acted as Front End Architect in a rewrite of the UI into React, dramatically reducing user issues, simplifying workflows, and ultimately leading to higher NPS scores and customer delight. • Established and resourced UI/UX department • Contributed to company efforts where I was needed, including doing sales demos at conferences, security reviews, company events, swag, training, onboarding, mentorship program • Successfully developed and supported growth of my reports, as well as other individuals in the organization. (This is personally the most fulfilling aspect of my role).
Front End Web Development Engineer
domoincmx
July 2017 - July 2018
Lead the UI organization of over 40 engineers, by organizing, leading discussion, making plans, and executing efforts in coordination across teams to keep Domo's flagship platform up-to-date and consistent. Efforts such as updating webpack, updating testing framework, surveying the organization and addressing major concerns to keep engineers engaged, introducing modern technologies such as React, Redux, Jest, in a safe, scalable, and maintainable way. Lead a team in development, maintenance, and consistency of shared components throughout the expansive codebase.
Founder
BookRebel
January 2017 - September 2018
Founded Book Rebel, a mostly automated curated book deals service catering to the independent author community. Sent millions of emails to a hundred thousand subscribers. Successfully exited the business.
Senior Software Engineer
domoincmx
July 2015 - July 2017
I work to positively impact the business and development organization in as many ways as possible. Including: Performing development on-boarding to introduce new employees to Domo's culture, history and drive. Recruiting talented individuals from the community and at official Domo sponsored events and career fairs. Organize and host monthly Javascript meetup to train all engineers on new processes, technologies, or projects of interest. Present at development wide educational conferences about the impact of analytics and the narrative process. Formally and informally mentor new engineers to teach, guide, and encourage them to reach their potential. All while developing world class experiences for thousands of customers across the globe with modern technologies and processes.
Software Engineer
domoincmx
May 2013 - July 2015
I work on the Front-End Web Application using Angular.js, Backbone.js, HTML5, SASS, git, d3, RESTful services, Jquery, underscore and other popular libraries. Domo's Web Application is among the largest Angular code bases in existence which offers a unique opportunity for maintaining a large javascript application. We focus on modularization and reusable code. We utilize require, grunt, KARMA (testing) and specific code organization best practices to allow us to scale our application efficiently. I take an active role in Domo Development's culture including organizing bi-weekly training meetings, helping to organize the on-boarding program and most importantly, organizing our Halloween presentation.
Education
Brigham Young University
Master's Degree, Master's of Information Systems Management
2012 - 2013
Activities and societies: Association of Information Systems
Brigham Young University
Bachelor's Degree, Information Systems Management
2010 - 2012
Activities and societies: Association of Information Systems.
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