Jacob Brazeal
Staff Engineer at Mercor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Brazeal is a Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building data infrastructure, AI agents, and distributed systems at fast-paced startups. He blends product design intuition with rigorous statistical and algorithmic thinking, having led teams across data engineering, payments, fraud detection, and GenAI at Scale AI before moving to Mercor. Jacob has hands-on experience shipping big-data products for Fortune 500 clients, and his background includes research-level cryptography and applied computer vision from earlier roles and an NSF-funded REU. He moves fluidly between individual contributor and management roles, pairing technical leadership with pragmatic delivery on internal revenue, billing, and operational efficiency systems. Known for bridging math-heavy problems and production software, he often applies techniques from signal processing and ML to real-world infra challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Clemson UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Bob Jones University
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Github contributions (5)
bjuppl/roadrace
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
The next little big thing.
Contributions:187 commits, 107 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
polkerty/roadrace
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:112 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
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