Summary
Jacob Biewer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backends, high-volume data pipelines, and resilient distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep practical expertise in Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, Java/Kotlin (including large Java→Kotlin migrations), Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and cloud-native tooling like AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes to modernize legacy codebases and optimize performance. Notable production work includes terabyte-scale ingestion and email de-duplication pipelines, orchestrated Temporal IO workflows for audio redaction, and embedded avionics software for mission-critical systems early in his career. Comfortable across the full stack, Jacob emphasizes clean, maintainable design guided by SOLID principles and automation to improve developer velocity. Based in Downers Grove, IL, he brings a game-engine developer’s attention to performance and detail—evident in prior Blizzard-focused GitHub work—while mentoring teams to deliver reliable, high-impact systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison