Jacob Barzee
Director Of Engineering & Co-Founder at MetaCensus
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Barzee is a Director of Engineering and co-founder with a decade of experience architecting scalable microservices and distributed systems, specializing in Go, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Cassandra. He builds platforms that accelerate collaboration between stakeholders—most recently leading a decentralized, cryptographically-aware data extraction and analysis startup aimed at speeding policy from science. A prolific contributor to Temporal (improving workflow/task-queue internals and stabilizing core services), he combines hands-on systems engineering with product-minded platform design. Based in San Francisco, he has driven cloud adoption and core platform work at companies from Qualtrics to CrowdStrike and Temporal, consistently enabling teams to move faster. Outside work he channels the same appetite for risk and exploration into outdoor and extreme sports in Utah.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (14)
task-queue10
distributed-systems10
micro10
go10
microservices10
workflow-engine10
microarchitecture10
grpc10
testing9
service-management9
storage8
databases8
database8
datastore8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
temporalio/temporal
Jul 2024 - Aug 2025
Temporal service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 reviews, 37 PRs, 116 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Temporal service, focusing on workflow management and related internal systems. Their work involved modifying and testing code related to namespace validation, task queue partition handling, and matching service behavior. They also implemented new features such as the ForceLoadTaskQueuePartition gRPC, and addressed issues related to visibility queries and data race conditions. The user's contributions enhanced the stability, performance, and functionality of the Temporal platform.
service-busmicroservice-orchestrationworkflow-automationworkflow-enginedocker
jmbarzee/rpi_ws281x
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Userspace Raspberry Pi PWM library for WS281X LEDs
Contributions:135 pushes in 3 months
raspberry-piuserspaceledspwmraspberry
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