Jacob Baskin
Summary
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SeniorJacob Baskin is a software engineer known for building high-performance, scalable systems across fintech, advertising, and urban-tech. He currently contributes at Jane Street, focusing on scalable data infrastructure in the financial sector, after leading technical operations as CTO and cofounder of Coord (an Alphabet-funded city-mobility startup). Previously, at Google, he helped design and scale the DoubleClick Ad Exchange backend and later led real-time data processing for ad serving across multiple products. His career spans startup leadership, deep hands-on engineering, and team-building—ranging from Sidewalk Labs/Flow to a 12-person engineering leadership role at Coord, and an 80-person backend org at Google. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Brown University with a 4.0 GPA and began his career interning at Bloomberg, grounding his work in finance and systems reliability. Based in New York, he combines academic rigor with practical experience turning complex requirements into auditable, production-grade infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (95)
databases10
specification10
curb10
trino10
sql-query10
sql10
h210
presto10
utilization10
database10
data-science10
warehouse10
typescript10
distributed-systems10
analytics10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jacobbaskin/trino
Jul 2022 - Jul 2023
Contributions:93 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
hbasebigdatabig-datatrinodatabase
sidewalklabs/react-native-mapbox-gl
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
reactreact-mapbox-glreact-native-modulemapboxreact-native
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