Summary
Jacob Baloul is a seasoned founder, software developer, and solutions architect with over two decades of experience building high-performance, mission-critical systems across travel, e-commerce, fintech, and security. He combines hands-on full-stack and data-science skills with enterprise architecture and cloud-native expertise, regularly designing ultra-low-latency systems (including HFT algo trading) and scalable serverless pipelines on AWS. Jacob has a track record of rescuing and re-architecting reservation and booking platforms for major cruise and airline operators, and he turns deep SQL and performance-tuning know-how into measurable business impact. As an entrepreneur he repeatedly incubates SaaS and consumer-facing products—Alexa skills, news NLP engines, personalization and recommendation engines—bringing patented innovation to market. Comfortable operating at C-level strategy and in the codebase, he pairs leadership, mentoring and SDLC discipline with a penchant for reverse engineering and precision math at scale. Based in Miami, he blends multicultural experience and academic grounding in computer science with a start-up builder’s curiosity and relentless efficiency focus.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Tel Aviv University
Economics, Economics at Yale University
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Stanford University
English, Hebrew, Spanish