Jacob Barrett
Tech Lead at Broadcom
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Barrett is a seasoned tech lead and software engineer based in Portland with over 20 years designing high-availability, enterprise systems and a 25+ year breadth of hands-on experience across languages and platforms. He currently leads efforts at Broadcom and contributes to Apache Geode, improving Java backend infrastructure and test coverage for a widely used in-memory data grid. Jacob excels at architecting scalable SaaS communication platforms and has driven product and engineering teams through roles at Pivotal, VMware, and earlier as a founder/CTO of a regional ISP. He combines deep systems-level knowledge—clustering, HA, native/managed interop—with pragmatic delivery and mentoring. Notably, he moves smoothly between shipping production server-side fixes and adding protocol-level features, reflecting a rare mix of implementation detail and architectural oversight. Colleagues rely on him for tackling tough distributed systems problems and turning them into maintainable, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
geode10
java10
batchfile9
script9
batch9
concurrent8
concurrent-programming8
unit-testing8
concurrency8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/geode
Dec 2016 - Jun 2022
Apache Geode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:465 reviews, 308 commits, 366 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits primarily focused on improving the Java-based backend implementation of the Apache Geode project. They addressed and fixed environment parameter issues within the project's batch scripts, specifically related to JAVA_ARGS. They also added new features, such as flags for the TXCommitMessage, and added new test cases. The work involved the modification of Java code files and batch files, reflecting a focus on server-side logic and infrastructure.
accumuloapachenetwork-serverdatagridjava
apache/geode-benchmarks
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Apache Geode Benchmarks
Contributions:34 reviews, 151 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 5 months
javabenchmarksgeodeapache
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