Summary
Jacob Blakely is a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer with 12 years of experience crafting elegant, user-focused web and CLI solutions and shipping products used by millions. Based in Salem, Oregon, he has a track record at Zapier building high-throughput backend services, a Chrome extension relied on company-wide for support, and prototyping features that converted into multimillion-dollar products. Comfortable in customer-facing roles, he blends hands-on engineering with clear communication and mentorship, having helped scale teams from small groups to 100+ engineers. As a consultant and co-owner/technologist in real estate, he automated operations and led complex data migrations, demonstrating an ability to translate domain problems into practical technical systems. He’s equally at home reducing frontend complexity or architecting resilient ingestion pipelines, and brings a pragmatic focus on making complex things simple.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Oregon
English, Japanese