Brian Jacobson
VP IT & Facilities Manager at Poppy Bank
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorBrian Jacobson is a pragmatic IT leader with eight years of experience building resilient, automated infrastructure across startups, enterprise, education, and multinational environments. Currently VP IT & Facilities, he excels at turning multi-hour manual processes into minutes via scripting and orchestration, and has led global office builds from planning through go‑live across CN, IN, RO, IT, UK, RU, and the US. His background spans identity and SSO mastery at Okta, cloud-forward operations and firewall/high-availability networking at Elementum, and hands-on systems work at Adobe and other firms, giving him both strategic and implementational fluency. Comfortable operating in fast-paced, IPO-stage and startup settings, he combines project management, vendor coordination, and a relentless focus on making teams more efficient. A self-taught Italian speaker who once relocated to Italy to keep working in tech, he brings grit, cross-cultural experience, and a bias for practical automation to every role.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Italian
Github Skills (19)
garmin8
authentication8
oauth2-client8
security7
proxy7
authorization7
oauth2-server6
home-assistant5
saml5
reverse-proxy5
kubernetes4
authentication-middleware4
oidc-client4
iot4
home-automation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jacobrian/okta
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jacobrian/gam
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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