Jacob Beck
Unemployed at none
Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Beck is a backend-focused software engineer with 15 years of experience building secure, low-level applications and data transformation pipelines, and a particular fondness for Python and exploratory Rust work. He has served as a staff engineer at startups and fintech, including owning security engineering efforts at Affirm and contributing to dbt-core—helping harden tests and adapter behavior for a widely used open-source data transformation tool. Jacob excels at shipping production-quality backend services and observability for data systems, with hands-on experience automating tests and addressing database-specific integration issues. Based in Steamboat Springs, CO, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity—recently trading full-time work for family time while staying active in open-source and continuing to ski.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (11)
python10
analytics10
dbt10
testing10
elt9
postgresql9
bigquery9
aws-redshift9
amazon-redshift9
data-modeling8
yaml8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dbt-labs/dbt-core
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 releases, 17 reviews, 538 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob's commits primarily focus on modifying and adding test cases to the dbt-core repository. Their contributions involved expanding the test suite to cover thread count functionality and improve error handling within profile YAML configurations. The user also addressed database-specific configurations like setting TCP keepalive for Redshift connections and handling external BigQuery relations, indicating work related to adapter implementations. Overall, the contributions center on ensuring the stability and functionality of the dbt core library through targeted testing and adapter enhancements.
analyticsdbt-viewpointtransformanalystssql
beckjake/rust-id3
Nov 2015 - Sep 2018
A rust library for reading and writing ID3 metadata
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 10 months
rustrust-libraryid3metadata
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