Jacob Brinlee
Software Development Engineer Ll at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Brinlee is a software engineer with five years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently at Amazon after contributing to FeatureBase’s bitmap-based analytical database at Molecula. He has a strong foundation in distributed systems and databases, having improved performance, error handling, and configuration for FeatureBase—work that supports real-time analytics and ML workflows. Jacob’s background spans customer-facing engineering, teaching algorithms at UPenn, and product engineering in industry, giving him a practical yet research-informed approach to problem solving. Based in Seattle, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on development and a knack for clear logging and operational robustness that often goes unnoticed but pays dividends in production.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Mechanical Engineering at Northern Illinois UniversityMaster of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science, Master of Computer and Information Technology Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (11)
databases10
kafka10
bitmap10
bitmaps10
go10
database10
indexof9
indexing9
error-handling9
big-data9
sql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A crazy fast analytical database, built on bitmaps. Perfect for ML applications. Learn more at: http://docs.featurebase.com/. Start a Docker instance: https://hub.docker.com/r/featurebasedb/featurebase
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 11 commits, 22 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob primarily contributed to the backend of the featurebase database, focusing on adding features, improving error handling, and enhancing performance. Their work includes adding configuration options for foreign indexes and Kafka consumer settings. The user also implemented error handling improvements within the database's core functionalities, specifically in the rbf module. Additionally, the user made updates in order to improve log messages.
bitmapsdatabasedockermachine-learninggo
jrbrinlee1/pychess
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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