Ferosh Jacob
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Kennesaw State University
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFerosh Jacob is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 12 years of professional experience and a PhD in Computer Science, currently leading engineering at Genuine Parts Company while also teaching part-time at Kennesaw State University. His research-driven approach blends software engineering with high-performance, heterogeneous computing, cloud, and AI to improve design, development, and maintainability of computation-intensive systems. Ferosh has a strong track record of modernizing production code—evidenced by contributions to the DBpedia extraction framework where he resolved Scala compatibility and testing issues—and has held senior roles at Kaiser Permanente and The Home Depot. He combines academic rigor with hands-on backend refactoring and team leadership, often evaluating tooling trade-offs and proposing pragmatic solutions that bridge research and enterprise delivery. Based in Marietta, GA, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective that helps teams operate reliably at scale while keeping technical debt in check.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Clarkson UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at National Institute of Technology CalicutDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The University of Alabama
English
Github Skills (5)
scala10
refactoring9
json9
testing8
computer-engineering8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dbpedia/extraction-framework
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
The software used to extract structured data from Wikipedia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 20 days
Contributions summary:Ferosh primarily focused on refactoring and fixing compatibility issues related to Scala and its libraries within the DBpedia extraction framework. Their commits addressed deprecated features and incompatibilities with Scala 2.11, specifically around default parameters and octal escape literals. Additionally, the user updated the code to utilize a local method for quoting strings in JSON formatting to avoid deprecated libraries. Furthermore, the user updated the test files to be compatible with ScalaTest 2.2.1
pythonstructured-datastructuredwikipedia
recipegrace/ScriptDB
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 4 PRs in 5 months
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